Trump and Putin to meet at historical summit to end Ukraine-Russia War

President Donald Trump is Will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin A historical summit in Alaska on Friday.

The President will go Anchorage, Alaska, Friday morning, the meeting was somewhat equivalent to Washington, DC and Moscow. The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867.

High-stakes conference is the first US-Russian summit since June 2021Under the administration of former President Joe Biden. The summit came eight months before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Trump described the negotiations as a “explosion meeting” and made it clear that his priority was to determine whether a ceasefire in Ukraine was possible. Trump predicted earlier this week that he would be able to make a decision within the first “two minutes.”

“I won’t make an agreement. It’s not that I want to make an agreement,” Trump said. “I think there should be an agreement (Putin and Ukrainian President Vodimir Zelensky).

“I want to see the ceasefire,” Trump continued. “I want to see the best deals that both parties can make. You know, tango needs two.”

But if Putin disagrees to end the war after Friday’s meeting, the president threatens to have “very serious consequences” for Russia. Furthermore, while everyone’s eyes were on the summit between Trump and Putin, Trump said: “The more important meeting will be the second meeting we attended.”

“We will meet with President Putin, President Zelenskyy, myself, maybe we will bring some European leaders – maybe not…it will be very important.”

“We’re going to see what happens,” Trump continued. “And I think President Putin will achieve peace.”

The day before the summit, Trump predicted that his meeting with Putin had a 25% chance of failing directly, but said he hoped to push Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a second meeting.

President Donald Trump saw it at the White House in Washington, DC on August 8, 2025. (Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters)

“The meeting set up a second meeting,” Trump told Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade, adding that the second meeting would be “extremely important” and suggested that there could be negotiations on land swaps, which Zelenskyy’s concept was opposed.

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Zelenskyy is not part of Friday’s summit. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump agreed to the meeting at Putin’s request.

“The goal of this meeting is to better understand how we end this war,” Levitt said in a recent White House press conference. “I think the U.S. president enters the room with the Russian president and sits face to face, rather than speaking over the phone, which will provide the president with the best sign of how to end this war and move forward.”

However, Zelenskyy insists that any decision to end the war without Ukraine is impossible.

Zelenskyy repeatedly stated that he was willing to meet Putin directly to end the war, although so far Putin refused.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right and President Donald Trump attend the funeral of Vatican Pope Francis on Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office through the Associated Press)

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“Any decisions made against us, no decisions made by Ukraine – they also decide to oppose peace,” Zelenskyy said in a statement on Saturday. “These are decisions that are dead; they will never work. We all need a real, living peace that people will respect.”

But, just recently Wednesday, Zelensky said there was “no sign” that Russia was preparing to end the war.

“This war must end. For a just and peaceful peace, pressure must be put in Russia. Ukraine’s experience must be used to prevent Russian deception,” the Ukraine leader wrote on Wednesday.

“At present, there is no indication that the Russians are ready to end the war,” he added. “Our coordinated efforts and joint actions – Ukraine, the United States, Europe and all countries seeking peace – can absolutely force Russia to achieve peace.”

Zelenskyy said before Trump-Putin meeting, there is no sign that Russia wants to end the war

Zelenskyy recently wrote on X: “It is necessary to work with Ukraine to determine the path to peace in Ukraine – it is basic.”

He also said: “It is important to work on a common approach and a shared vision for true peace. A merger position. Ceasefire. Occupy ends. War ends.”

President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the first day of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan on June 28, 2019. (Kremlin Press Office/Handout/anadolu agent/Getty image)

Zelenskyy also said this week that he discussed the possibility of holding a high-level talk organized by Turkey. Presided over previous diplomatic negotiations No lasting ceasefire agreement was secured, but thousands of Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war were released.

“We are ready for any form of meetings aimed at stopping the killings and ending the war,” Zelenksyy said. “President Erdogan confirmed his country’s preparations to organize summits for Ukrainian, the United States, Russia and Turkey.”

However, Putin praised Trump for doing his best to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, saying the United States is making “very dynamic and sincere efforts to stop hostilities, stop the crisis and reach an agreement of interest to all parties involved in the conflict,” Reuters reported.

According to reports, Putin also mentioned the future “agreement on the field of strategic offensive weapons control.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired the Security Council meeting at a video conference held in the Kremlin in Moscow on 28 March 2025. (Sergei Ilyin/Pool/AFP/Getty Images)

Russia and the United States Holding the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and having a treaty that limits the number of weapons they may have, which expires in February, adds more pressure to the upcoming speech. According to Reuters, the new Strategic Weapon Reduction Treaty covers strategic nuclear weapons and limits the number of warheads deployed on each side to 1,550.

There has been some nuclear tension between the two countries in recent weeks as Trump ordered two nuclear submarines to approach Russia after the country’s former president made “highly provocative statements.” According to Reuters, the Kremlin downplayed the move but warned all parties to be “very very, very cautious” about nuclear remarks.

Meanwhile, journalists urged Trump the day before the summit whether his meeting with Putin could ultimately “reward” the Russian president’s invasion.

Trump laughed at the question and said, “No. I don’t think it’s reward.”

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“Our situation is something that should never begin – it should never begin,” Trump said. “It didn’t start with me. It didn’t even discuss it for four years. I could see it happening. After leaving, I could see what happened. Everything we did was wrong, everything we did was wrong. Everyone should blame it. Putin should blame it. They should all blame it.”

“When I was president, this war would never happen. If I were president, this war would never happen.” “But millions of people were killed, and I was there for a reason: See if I could solve this problem. It’s Biden’s war.”

Caitlin McFall, Greg Norman and Rachel Wolff of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.