Donald Trump has confirmed his face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin will take place in the US state of Alaska next Friday.
He wrote on social media: “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. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he wrote.
Speaking to reporters during a summit with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House earlier today, Donald Trump said he would confirm the location of a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin “very soon” to discuss the war in Ukraine.
He told reporters: “I’ll be meeting very shortly with President Putin. It would have been sooner, but I guess there’s security arrangements that unfortunately people have to make.”
He said the location of the meeting “will be a very popular one for a number of reasons”.
The US president also alluded to a deal which would involve “some swapping of territories… to the betterment of both” Ukraine and Russia.
He continued: “You are looking at territory that has been fought over for three-and-a-half years. A lot of Russians have died, a lot of Ukrainians have died, so we are looking at that.
“We are looking to actually get some back and some swapping. It is complicated, actually nothing easy. We are going to get some back, some switched.”
