The Kremlin has announced the time of the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“It is assumed that everything will start tomorrow, 15 August, at about 11: 30 local time with a conversation between Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Donald Trump,” presidential aide Yury Ushakov told reporters.
According to him, this conversation will take place in a face-to-face format, with the participation of interpreters, followed by negotiations within the delegations.
“As for the summit agenda, it is obvious to everyone that the central topic will be the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis (this is how Moscow calls the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine – ed.), in particular taking into account the discussion that was held in the Kremlin on 6 August with the participation of US President Steve Witkoff’s special envoy,” Ushakov said.
Trump and Putin will hold a joint press conference after the talks.
The Kremlin also revealed the composition of the Russian delegation to the Alaska summit: it includes Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and the Russian president’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
The summit between the US and Russian leaders is scheduled for 15 August in Anchorage, the largest city in the state of Alaska. It will be the first meeting between the Russian leader and a sitting US president since 2021.
On 11 August, Donald Trump suggested the possibility of “some exchange of territory” between Ukraine and Russia, and expressed dissatisfaction with the Ukrainian leadership’s remarks about the need for constitutional agreement in this case.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Vladimir Putin told Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff that he would agree to a full ceasefire “if Ukraine withdraws troops from the entire Donetsk region.” Subsequently, a knowledgeable source told The Washington Post, it was confirmed that Putin was not ready to give up claims to Russian-held territories in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions.