Washington, 9 August 2025 (dpa/MIA) - US President Donald Trump has said that he will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15.

"The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska. Further details to follow," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

Putin on Thursday had confirmed the planned meeting with Trump on the Ukraine war, suggesting the United Arab Emirates as a possible venue for the summit.

Russia has been waging a destructive war against Ukraine for more than three years. Trump had repeatedly stated his desire to end the war quickly.

The summit will be the first between a sitting US president and Putin since 2021, when Joe Biden met Putin in Geneva.

Earlier on Friday, Trump said Ukraine and Russia would likely be "swapping" portions of territory as part of a deal to end the war, calling the plans "very complicated."

Trump has said he plans to first meet Putin and then expand the talks into a trilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, the Kremlin has been reserved about a meeting between Putin and Zelensky.

On Thursday, Putin said he considers a meeting with Zelensky as possible, but the conditions for such negotiations must be right, and the prerequisites for this are still far from being met.

Putin did not list his conditions, but previously the Kremlin had insisted that Ukraine give up the territories Russia occupies, including Crimea which it illegally annexed in 2014, that western nations stop supplying Ukraine with weapons and that they exclude Ukraine from NATO membership.

Zelensky and his European allies have rejected those demands.

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