President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska To end the war in UkraineA potential heavy milestone after being frustrated for weeks that it was no longer done to suppress the fights.
When Trump had spoken to reporters of the White House in the White House that announced a framework that aimed to end decades of conflicts in the world – between Armenia and Azerbaijan – Trump refused exactly when or where he would meet with Putin, but he planned to announce a location soon. He later announced on social media, as he called “The Speed Accounted Meeting”, would take place in Alaska on August 15th. He said more details would follow. The Kremlin has not yet confirmed the details.
He proposed on Friday on Friday that his meeting with the Russian leader could come before a sit-down discussion about the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“We will have a meeting with Russia, start with Russia. And we will announce a place. I think the place will be very popular,” said Trump.
He added: “It would have been earlier, but I think there are security measures that people unfortunately have to take. Otherwise I would do it much faster. He would do it too. He would like to apply as soon as possible. I will agree. But we will announce it shortly.”
When it happens the meeting Would be the first summit of the US Russia since 2021 when former President Joe Biden Putin met Putin in Geneva. It could mean a breakthrough in Trump’s efforts In order to end the war, there would be no guarantee to stop the battles because Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart under their peace conditions.
Nevertheless, Trump said: “I think President Putin wants to see peace and Zelenskyy wants to see peace.” He said: “In all fairness to President Zelenskyy, he gets everything he needs, provided we do something.”
Trump also said that a peace agreement would probably mean that some territories will be exchanged between Ukraine and Russia, but no further details.
Trump said in general: “We want to get something back and exchange. It is complicated.”
“Nothing easy,” said the president. “But we will get something back. We are switched around a little.
Analysts, including some near the Kremlin, have suggested that Russia could offer areas that control it outside the four regions that it has for annexed.
Trump urged whether this was the last chance to achieve a big peace agreement, and said: “I don’t like using the last chance” and said: “When these weapons start, it is terribly difficult to stop them.”
Anyened that Putin did not pay attention to his calls to end the bombing of the Ukrainian cities almost two weeks ago moved his ultimatum Russia to impose additional sanctions and to introduce secondary tariffs to countries that buy Russian oil if the Kremlin did not move towards a settlement. The The deadline was Friday.
Before his announcement of the meeting with Putin, Trump’s efforts to put Russia under pressure have so far to stop the fights did not deliver any progress. The larger army of the Kremlin slowly rises deeper into Ukraine in troops and armor, while it is too high costs Ukrainian cities bombarded tirelessly. Russia and Ukraine are far apart at their peace conditions.
Ukrainian troops say they are ready to continue fighting
The Ukrainian armed forces are locked up in intensive battles along the 1000-kilometer front line (620 miles), which meanders from northeast to southeastern tub. The area of Pokrovsk in the Eastern Donetsk region takes the main burden of punishment when Russia wants to break down to the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region. Ukraine has a significant lack of workers.
In the northern border region of the Ukrainian North Sumy, there are also intensive fights in which Ukrainian armed forces include Russian soldiers to prevent reinforcements from there to Donetsk.
In the Pokrovsk area in Donetsk, a commander said that Moscow is not interested in peace.
“It is impossible to negotiate with you. The only way to defeat them is to defeat them,” said Buda, a commander of a drone unit in the Spartan Brigade, the Associated Press. He only used his call sign to meet the rules of the Ukrainian military.
“I want you to agree and stop it, but Russia will not agree.
In the South -Zaporizhzhia region, a Haubitz commander who uses the Call Sign Warsaw, the troops are determined to thwart the invasion of Russia.
“We are in our country, we have no way out,” he said. “So we stay on the floor, we have no choice.”
Putin makes a flood of telephone calls
The Kremlin said on Friday that Putin had a call with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in which the Russian leader XI informed about the results of his meeting early this week Trump envoy Steve Witkoff. Kremlin officials said that XI had “expressed long-term support for the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis”.
Putin will visit China next month. China together with North Korea and Iran military support For the Russia’s effort, the USA says.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on X that he also had a call with Putin to talk about the latest Ukrainian developments. Trump card signed an executive order Wednesday to set an additional 25% tariff in India for his purchases of Russian oil, which, according to the American president, helps the financing of Russia.
Putin’s calls followed his phone calls with the leaders of South Africa, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus, said the Kremlin.
The calls suggested at least one analyst that Putin might want to determine the most important allies of Russia about a potential settlement that could be reached on a summit with Trump.
“It means that a kind of real peace agreement has been hit for the first time,” said Sergei Markov, a Pro-Kremlin-Moscow analyst.
Analysts say Putin wants to outlast the West
Trump’s Friday comments came after saying that he would meet Putin, even if the Russian guide would not meet with Zelenskyy. These feared in Europe that Ukraine could be excluded in the efforts to stop the continent’s greatest conflict since the Second World War.
Putin said in an earlier one opinion that he hoped to meet Trump in the next week, possibly in the United Arab Emirates.
The Institute for Studying the War, a Think Tank in Washington, said on Thursday in an assessment that “Putin is still not interested in ending his war and trying to extract bilateral concessions from the United States without sensible in a peace process”.
“Putin continues to believe that the time is on Russia’s side and that Russia can survive Ukraine and the West,” it said.
