Trump, Putin To Meet In Alaska On 15 August For Ukraine Peace Talks

US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on 15 August to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, The India Today reported.

“The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

The Kremlin also confirmed the meeting, citing aide Yury Ushakov, according to TASS.

Trump made the announcement after suggesting that talks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were close to securing a ceasefire, which could involve Ukraine ceding significant territory.

“There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both,” he told reporters.

In an address later on Friday (8 August), Zelenskyy said a ceasefire was possible if sufficient pressure was maintained on Russia, noting ongoing talks with multiple foreign leaders.

The meeting will be Trump’s first in-person encounter with Putin since returning to office and Putin’s first visit to the US in a decade. He last visited in 2015 for the UN General Assembly.

The Kremlin said Putin spoke with Chinese leader Xi Jinping ahead of the meeting, and will visit China next month. Putin also held calls with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders from South Africa, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus.

The talks come days after Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on Indian goods over imports of Russian oil, aiming to curb Moscow’s war funding.

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