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US President Donald Trump will welcome his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, when he left Alaska on Friday in Alaska, the Kremlin announced.
“At 11:00 am precise (9:00 p.m. in Switzerland), the president (Putin, note) must land, and President Trump will welcome him, “on the Tarmac, said spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, to the official Russian agencies before Mr. Putin’s departure for Alaska.
Donald Trump spoke this Friday by telephone to Belarusian leader, Alexandre Loukachenko, a faithful ally of Vladimir Putin on Friday, according to Belta, the official Biélorussia news agency, before a highly anticipated summit between the American and Russian presidents in Alaska.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday “count” on Donald Trump to put the war in Ukraine, a few hours before a capital summit in Alaska where the American president must meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
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“It is time to end the war, and Russia must take the necessary measures. We are counting on the United States, ”he added in a publication on the social network X.
US President Donald Trump. Taken off on Friday for Alaska, where he must meet Vladimir Putin for a historic summit which could seal the fate of Ukraine at war.
“Big challenges!” wrote Donald Trump on his social social platform, shortly before boarding Air Force One for an approximately seven -hour flight for anchorage.
Donald Trump rising aboard the Air Force One at the base Andrews on August 15, 2025, en route to Anchorage, where he will meet Vladimir Putin.
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A few kilometers from the front, the meeting in Alaska arouses little hope.
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On the beach of Sloviansk, in the Donbass, a few tens of kilometers from the front line.
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What will Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin talk about? Why did you choose Alaska? What can we expect from this tête-à-tête?
We take stock of the Russian-American summit in this article.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet this Friday, August 15 in Anchorage this Friday, for an already historic tête-à-tête.
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The meeting will take place in Anchorage, the main city of Alaska, on the American military base of Elmendorf-Richardson, a site whose strategic importance had culminated during the Second World War and then the Cold War.
The site has more than 6,000 soldiers, 800 buildings and two tender tracks, according to the Pacific air forces website.
Alaska is a small end of the United States at the gates of Russia, from which it is separated by the Strait of Bering. Recall that this American territory is an old possession of the Tsars Empire, from which it was bought in 1867.
The American and Russian presidents meet this evening at 9:30 p.m. (Swiss time) on the American military base of Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, for a summit where it will be largely a question of the war in Ukraine. This is Vladimir Putin’s first trip to the United States since 2015.
This tête-à-tête could sketch the end of the war that has ravaged Ukraine for over three years. Donald Trump promised to obtain a “ceasefire” between the two countries. The two heads of state will discuss international security more generally, Kremlin said on Thursday.
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