"The highly anticipated meeting between me, as US President, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the state of Alaska. Details will be updated later" - President Trump posted on Truth Social on the evening of August 8.
Trump's announcement was made on the day he set a deadline for Putin to sign a peace deal in Ukraine or face economic sanctions.
US officials, including President Trump, have informed European leaders and Ukrainian officials of President Putin's proposed plan to end the conflict in Ukraine in exchange for significant territorial grants from Kiev.
The plan was raised by President Putin to President Trump's special foreign delegate, Mr. Steve Witkoff, at a meeting in Moscow on August 6.
The plan requires Ukraine to cede the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine, which Russia is largely controlled, as well as abandon Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
The plan also freezes current front lines in the conflict. Other details of the proposal that Russia has raised have not been disclosed.
President Trump is optimistic about the prospects of reaching a peace deal in Ukraine, emphasizing that he will focus on negotiations to end the conflict as soon as possible. Mr. Trump shared, "My true instinct told me that we have a chance to achieve" peace.
Trump and Putin have met in person six times during Trump's first term as US President, mostly at G20 summits and APEC meetings.
The two leaders last met in July 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.
The last time Mr. Putin met a US President was in June 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland, meeting then-US President Joe Biden.
