Trump Alaska Putin Meeting: Ukraine Remarks

The Air Force One with the American president Donald Trump on board is taken off by the Andrews base to head to Alaska where the summit with the leader of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin will take place.

The White House confirms that the summit in the US base at the gates of Anchorage will start at 9 pm Italian time and that the departure of the President from the Alaska city to return to Washington is scheduled at 3.45 in the morning in Italy.

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Regarding the summit between the US President and the leader of the Kremlin “all the options remain on the table, including the one that Donald Trump abandon the summit if it should think that Vladimir Putin is not serious about the voluntary agreement”: a high officer of the US administration cited by the CNN affirms it. However, the White House says “cautiously optimistic” on the outcome of the comparison.

The whole world will also look at anchorage, hoping that the summit between Trump and Putin offers a ‘Chance for Peace’ in Ukraine. ‘If a trilateral meeting with Zelensky will be well in Alaska,’ said the Tycoon who gave a 75% probability of success at the summit. But Kiev freezes expectations: ‘Negotiations can only be productive after reaching a ceased fire’, writes on X the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, on the eve of the summit. On the negotiation table the offer of rare lands to Moscow and defense guarantees in Kiev but outside the NATO. And the tsar breaks the silence: ‘Donald is sincere, he wants to end war’. The Russian leader aims to rapproche with the USA. ‘Agreements also on nuclear security of the world’. The meeting between Trump and Putin will begin at 11.00 local time (9.00 pm in Italy) with a bilateral and will end with a press conference of the two leaders. Meanwhile, Zelensky was received in London by Starmer.

“I’m not here to negotiate with Putin instead of Ukraine. I am here to take them to the table”: Donald Trump says it by talking to the journalists aboard the Air Force One, as reported by the international media. Trump therefore reiterates that the goal is to give guarantees of safety to Ukraine, “but not under NATO umbrella”: “And it is Europe – he added – that he will have to take the guide”.

In view of the Trump-Putin meeting tonight in Alaska, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, had new telephone interviews with Volodymyr Zelensky, according to what is learned from the Elysée, until the last hours of this morning. “President Macron and President Zelensky – explains the Elisha – agreed a meeting in a useful moment after the top in Alaska”. Dates or places of this meeting were not specified.

“Post in high game !!!”: Donald Trump writes it on his social network, Truth, just before departure from Washington for Alaska, where in the Italian evening there will be the highly anticipated meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Russia should accept a ceasefire with Ukraine when Vladimir Putin will meet Donald Trump in Alaska: the German chancellor Friedrich Merz said it a few hours after the summit. Merz said that the meeting between Trump and Putin offered an “opportunity” for peace and invited Putin to abandon all the pre -contracts for a ceased and then meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. “The goal must be a summit in which President Zelensky also participates. On that occasion, a fire must be agreed. Ukraine needs solid security guarantees. Territorial issues can only be decided with the consent of the Ukrainians,” he underlined.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Magadan, a city in the district of the Far Russian East, where he stops before starting again for Alaska, where in the evening he will meet Donald Trump. The spokesman Dmitry Peskov, mentioned by the Ria Novosti agency, said that Putin has a visit to local industrial plants and a meeting with the governor, Serghei Nosov, before embarking for Anchorage

Russian Foreign Minister Serghiei Lavrov arrived in Alaska, in view of the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, wearing a shirt with the CCCP’s writing, the acronym in Cyrillic of the Soviet Union. The international media report it. Lavrov, in a short exchange with journalists in front of his hotel in Anchorage, said that a lot was done during the recent visit to Moscow of the United States special correspondence Steve Witkoff and that the Kremlin hopes to continue this “useful conversation” at the top scheduled tonight at 21 Italian. “We never have plans in advance. We know we have topics, a clear and understandable position. We will present it,” said Lavrov.

Moscow will clearly declare its position to the Russian-American talks in Alaska, and much has already been done in this sense during the visits of the American special correspondence Steve Witkoff: the Russian Foreign Minister Serghiei Lavrov said, as reported by the Tass agency. “We know we have topics and our position is clear and precise. We will explain it,” said Rossiya-24 to the television channel. “Much has already been done here during Steve Witkoff’s visits. The president has already talked about it. Witkoff spoke on behalf of President Donald Trump. We hope to continue this very useful conversation” in Alaska, said the minister. Tass recalls that yesterday Russian presidential councilor Yury Ushakov said that the meeting between Putin and Trump will be open by an individual interview, in which, in addition to the leaders, only interpreters will take part. The central theme of the meeting will be the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, but Putin and Trump will also deal with “wider topics to guarantee peace and security, as well as the current and most urgent international and regional issues”.

“The position of Ukraine and our partners on the way of peace is clear and based on principles: it cannot be defined without Ukraine and negotiations can only be productive after reaching a ceased the fire”: the Ukrainian foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, on the eve of the summit between the American president Donald Trump and his Russian homologous Vladimir Putin writes it. Alaska.
Yesterday Trump said that one ceased the immediate fire is unlikely, underlining that he is more “interested in immediate peace”.