President Donald Trump has introduced that he’ll meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska subsequent Friday.
Trump introduced the assembly in a put up on Fact Social on August 8.
“The extremely anticipated assembly between myself, as President of the USA of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will happen subsequent Friday, August 15, 2025, within the Nice State of Alaska. Additional particulars to comply with. Thanks in your consideration to this matter!” Trump wrote.
The announcement got here on the deadline Trump had given for Putin to finish the warfare, or face extreme financial penalties.
CNN experiences:
US officers, together with Trump, have briefed European leaders and Ukrainian officers on a plan provided by Putin to halt the warfare in Ukraine in alternate for vital territorial concessions by Kyiv, in line with Western officers briefed on the matter.
The plan, which Putin introduced to Trump’s international envoy Steve Witkoff in a gathering in Moscow on Wednesday, would require Ukraine to cede the jap Donbas area — nearly all of which is presently occupied by Russia — in addition to Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
The plan would freeze present battle traces, however different particulars of the proposal have been nonetheless unclear.
Talking to reporters on the White Home on Friday earlier than saying the assembly, Trump appeared optimistic that peace could be achieved within the area.
“The European leaders wish to see peace,” Trump stated. “President Putin, I consider, needs to see peace, and Zelensky needs to see peace.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to the announcement with a video assertion on Saturday morning, sporting a inexperienced sweatshirt, by which he rejected any peace deal that includes exchanging land.
Ukraine is prepared for actual selections that may deliver peace. Any selections which are in opposition to us, any selections which are with out Ukraine, are on the identical time selections in opposition to peace. They won’t obtain something. These are stillborn selections. They’re unworkable selections. And we… pic.twitter.com/JFg0rIeLzP
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 9, 2025
Zelenskyy stated “Ukrainians is not going to give their land as a present to the occupier,” and that “any resolution made in opposition to or with out Ukraine will deliver nothing” and are “lifeless selections” that “won’t ever work.”
Regardless of that, Zelenskyy claimed he’s “prepared, along with President Trump, along with all companions, to work towards actual, and most significantly, lasting peace.”
