By Anthony Marcus for Eurasia Business News, August 9, 2025. Article n°1696
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15, in Alaska. The meeting is intended to discuss a possible ceasefire and peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, which started on February 24, 2022.
Trump mentioned that the deal could involve some “swapping of territories” between the two countries, a proposal that has been controversial and opposed by Kyiv and its allies.
The exact terms of any peace agreement and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will participate remain unclear.
The meeting is seen as significant given the stalled negotiations over Ukraine, and Trump aims to be a key mediator. Putin’s last visit to the U.S. was in 2015, and he last met with Trump in 2019. The location in Alaska is geographically close to Russia across the Bering Strait, which has been noted as logical by Russian officials
However the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky rejects giving up land. In a statement posted to Telegram, Zelensky said Ukraine’s territorial integrity, enshrined in the constitution, must be nonnegotiable, and emphasized that lasting peace must include Ukraine’s voice at the table.
On August 6, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff visited Moscow. He met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, their meeting lasted about three hours. As presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said after the talks, the meeting had two topics – the conflict in Ukraine and “prospects for the possible development of strategic cooperation between the United States and Russia.”
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