Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska to talk in Ukraine next week

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska next Friday next Friday Let’s discuss the future of the war in Ukraine.

Trump announced the meeting on August 15 on social media and was later confirmed by a Kremlin spokesman, who said the location was “quite logical”, given Alaska’s relative closeness to Russia.

The spokesman added that Trump was invited to Russia for a potential second summit.

There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine.

The announcement of the meeting came only hours after Trump signals that Ukraine may have to give way to the territory to end the war that began with Russia’s full -scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.

“You are watching a territory that has been fighting for three and a half years. Many Russians have died. Many Ukrainians have died,” Trump said in the White House on Friday.

“It’s very complicated. We’ll return a little, change.

The US President did not provide more details about what this proposal would look like.

However, BBC News CBS News American PartnerReferring to sources familiar with discussions, the White House is trying to swing European leaders to accept an agreement that will include Russia to take the entire Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine and maintain Crimea.

He will abandon the regions of Kherson and the attachment, which he partially occupies as part of the proposed agreement, CBS reports.

Earlier on Friday, The Wall Street Journal announced that Putin had proposed a similar agreement to Trump’s envoy Steve Vikof during a recent meeting in Moscow.

It is unclear whether Ukraine and European allies would agree to such a deal, given Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski and Putin, remain far from each other.

Zelenski has rejected all prerequisites for territorial discountsS

A senior White House official told CBS that the planning of the meeting on next Friday is still liquid and it is still possible for Zelenski to participate in some capacity.

Moscow failed to achieve a decisive breakthrough in its full -scale invasion, but occupies about 20% of the territory of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian offensives have not pushed the Russian forces back.

Three rounds of direct conversations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul have failed to bring the war closer, and Moscow’s military and political prerequisites are seen by Kiev and its allies as a factual capitulation of Ukraine.

Russian demands include Ukraine to become a neutral country, drastically reducing its military and abandoning its aspirations to NATO, as well as raising the Western sanctions imposed on Russia.

Moscow also wants Kiev to withdraw its military from the four regions, which Russia partially occupies in southeastern Ukraine and to demobilize its soldiers.

However, Trump insisted on Friday that the United States had a “shot in” a tripartite peace agreement between the countries.

“European leaders want to see peace, President Putin, I believe, they want to see peace, and Zelenski wants to see peace,” he told reporters.

“President Zelenski has to get all his own, everything he needs, because he will have to prepare to sign something and I think it works hard to do it,” Trump said.

Last month, Trump admitted to the BBC That after the four previous visits to Vitcof Putin, he disappointed him after the negotiations initially led to optimism.

In recent weeks, he has solidified his position against the Kremlin, imposing a deadline on Friday so that Russia can agree to end the fire in Ukraine or encounter faster sanctions.

But as the deadline approaches, the economic threat was quickly overshadowed by Trump and Putin’s plans to meet in person to discuss a potential peaceful deal.

On Friday, there was no announcement of more sanctions against Russia from the White House.

Trump and Putin spoke on the phone in February at the first direct exchange between the leaders of both countries after Russia’s full -scale invasion.

The last time the US president met Putin in 2021, when Joe Biden met with Russian president at a summit in Geneva, Switzerland.