Russian-American summit
Alaska next Friday: Trump receives Putin
Updated on 09.08.2025 – 04:51 a.m.Reading time: 4 min.
It is likely to be a historical meeting: US President Trump invites Kreml boss Putin – to American territory. Remarkable: one person does not occur at first.
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin want to meet in the US state of Alaska on Friday (August 15). It would be the first personal encounter of a reigning US president with Putin since the summer of 2021. At that time, Trump’s democratic predecessor Joe Biden met the Kremlin chief in Geneva.
On Putin’s command, Russia has been a destructive war against Ukraine for around three and a half years. People die to this day. Many Ukrainians fled their homeland. A ceasefire – or even a peace closure – did not seem in sight recently.
Trump represents the summit as an attempt to get closer to the end of the fights. In this context, he threw a possible exchange of territory between Ukraine and Russia, but remained vague.
Moscow recently called for a peaceful solution to the conflict, among other things, a waiver of Ukraine on NATO accession and the assignment of the areas annexed by Russia. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj has so far categorically rejects the waiver of the Black Sea Peninsula Crimea annexed by Russia in 2014 and the areas of Luhansk, Donetsk, Saporischschja and Cherson, some of which were controlled by Moscow.
It is still open whether there will also be a meeting between Putin and Selenskyj. The Ukrainian kept demanding such a conversation. Trump also emphasized the need for direct conversations between Moscow and Kiev at the highest level, but last said that they were not a prerequisite for meeting Putin himself. The Kremlin chief was rather behavior with a view to a possible three-way summit. He believes that such a meeting is possible, but the conditions for it are still far away, he explained last.
Shortly after the announcement of the meeting in Alaska, Moscow meanwhile brought a connection meeting between Putin and Trump into play – then in the Russian field.
That was a while ago: According to the US State Department, Putin was last in the United States in September 2015 to take part in the United Nations General Assembly in New York. There he also met US President Barack Obama. Strictly speaking, the United Nations does not belong to the USA, it is a territory with special status.
Yes. During his first term from 2017 to 2021, Trump and the Russian President saw each other several times, including 2019 at the G20 summit in Osaka in Japanese. Under Trump’s successor bidges, there was largely radio silence between Washington and Moscow in February 2022.
