President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, next Friday, August 15 in Alaska.
“The highly anticipated meeting between me, as president of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, from Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025 in the great state of Alaska. More details to follow. Thank you for your attention on this matter!” He published on his social media platform.
Previously, he had hinted at the moment and location, saying: “I think you’ll be very happy.”
“We are going to have a meeting with Russia. We will start with Russia and announce a location. I think the location will be very popular for many reasons. But we will announce it a little later. I just don’t want to do it now because of the importance of what we just did,” Trump said while organizing the leaders Armenia and Azerbaiyo in the White House for a peace supply.
When asked if this is Russia’s last opportunity to achieve a piece, Trump replied: “I don’t like using the term ‘last chance.”
“I think my instinct really tells me that we have an opportunity. You will discover it later, maybe even today, but we have a chance,” he said.
On Friday he marked the deadline that Trump established for Putin to accept a high fire with Ukraine or face “secondary sanctions” against countries that buy oil from Russia.
But uncertainty remains if the United States will arrive in Moscow with new economic sanctions as the approach becomes the individual meeting between Trump and Putin. Trump did not comment on the deadline when taking questions from the White House journalists.
Donald Trump and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, speak during the family photo session at the APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam, November 11, 2017.
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On Thursday, Trump was asked directly if his deadline on August 8 for Putin to make the consequences of peace or face still apply.
“He will depend on him,” the president replied. “Let’s see what you have to say. You will depend on it. Very disappointed.”
The White House was pressing a trilateral summit between Trump, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, although Trump said that Putin’s meeting with Zelenskyy was not a condition for him and Putin to meet.
Even so, Trump said Friday that the Ukrainian president will get “everything he needs.”
“European leaders want to see peace. President Putin, I think, wants to see peace. And Zelenskyy wants to see peace,” Trump said.
The president was asked if Zelenskyy will have to resign the territory in any agreement to end the war, which began when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
“We are looking at that, but we are really looking to recover a little and some exchanges. It is complicated. It is really not easy, it is very complicated. But we are going to recover a little, and we will change a little. There will be some exchange of territories to improve both of them,” Trump replied.
President Donald Trump in Washington, on August 6, 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome, July 10, 2025 and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, August 5, 2025.
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Trump, who once said that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in his first 24 hours in office and promoted his personal relationship with Putin, has expressed a growing frustration with the Russian leader.
In mid -July, Trump said he was giving Putin a 50 -day ultimatum to stop the fight. Then he climbed the 10 -day timeline, citing his disappointment with Putin.
“I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress,” Trump said at that time. “I’m not so interested in talking. He speaks, we have such beautiful conversations, such respectful and pleasant conversations, and then people die the next night in a – with a missile that goes to a city and hit.”
The tensions between the United States and Russia intensified last week when Trump announced that he was moving nuclear submarines in response to what he called “highly provocative statements” of the deputy president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev, also the former president of Russia, had sounded on the deadline of High Trump’s fire, writing on social networks that “every new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war.”
While Trump said that nuclear submarines would be transferred in response, he and the White House would not specify what capabilities the submarines or other questions that surround the announcement have.
And earlier this week, Trump indirectly increased the pressure on Russia by doubling its rate of rates against India on Russian oil imports in India.
