President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday August 15 in Alaska.
“The long-awaited meeting between myself, as president of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place on Friday August 15, 2025, in the great state of Alaska. More details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this question!” He posted on his social media platform.
Earlier, he had alluded to timing and location, saying: “I think you will be very happy.”
“We are going to have a meeting with Russia. We are going to start with Russia and we will announce a location. I think that the location will be very popular for many reasons. But we will announce a little later. I do not want to do it now because of the importance of what we have just done,” Trump said when he welcomed Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders for a Peace Summer.
When asked if it was the last chance of Russia to make a room, Trump replied: “I don’t like to use the term” last chance “.
“I think my instinct really tells me that we have a chance. You will discover it later, maybe even today, but we have a chance,” he said.
Friday marked the deadline that Trump established for Putin to accept a cease-fire with Ukraine or would face the “secondary sanctions” against countries that buy Russia oil.
But uncertainty remains as to whether the United States will reach Moscow with new economic sanctions while attention turns to individual meeting between Trump and Putin. Trump did not comment on the deadline because he answered questions from journalists in the White House.
Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed during the family photo of the family at the Apec summit in Danang, Vietnam, November 11, 2017.
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Trump was asked on Thursday if his deadline of August 8 for Putin to face peace or in front of the consequences was still applied.
“It will be him,” replied the president. “We are going to see what he has to say. It will be his. Very disappointed.”
The White House was pressure for a trilateral summit between Trump, Putin and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, although Trump said that Putin in Zelenskyy was not a condition for him and Putin.
However, Trump said on Friday that the Ukrainian president will have “everything he needs”.
“European leaders want to see peace. President Putin, I think, want to see peace. And Zelenskyy wants to see peace,” said Trump.
President was asked if Zelenskyy will have to abandon the territory in any agreement to end the war, which began when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
“We look at this, but we actually seek to recover and exchange. It is complicated. It’s actually nothing easy, it’s very complicated. But we will recover, and we will change. There will be an exchange of territories towards the improvement of the two,” replied Trump.
President Donald Trump in Washington on August 6, 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome on July 10, 2025 and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, on August 5, 2025.
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Trump, who said one day that he could end the Russian-Ukraine war in his first 24 hours of office and praised his personal relationship with Putin, expressed growing frustration towards the Russian chief.
In mid-July, Trump said he gave Putin a 50-day ultimatum to stop fighting. He then went up the chronology to 10 days, quoting his disappointment with Putin.
“I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progression,” Trump said at the time. “I am no longer so interested in speaking. He speaks, we have such beautiful conversations, conversations so respectful and beautiful, then people die the following night in a – with a missile entering a city and striking.”
Tensions between the United States and Russia increased last week when Trump announced that he was moving nuclear submarines in response to what he called “very provocative declarations” of the Vice-President of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev, also the former president of Russia, had sounded in the Trump’s cease-fire deadline, writing on social networks that “each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war”.
While Trump said that nuclear submarines would be moved in response, he and the White House would not specify the capacities of submarines or other questions surrounding the ad.
And earlier this week, Trump indirectly increased the pressure on Russia by doubling his rate of tariff against India on imports of Russian oil from India.