US President Trump and Russian President Putin are set to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, for high-stakes talks.
August 15, 2025: Today, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, and Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, are meeting in Alaska to talk about the war in Ukraine. This is the first time they have met in person since Trump returned to the White House.
People all across the world are frightened about what will happen next in the dispute. The meeting will be held at an air force base in Anchorage that was built during the Cold War. It will begin at 11 a.m. local time (1900 GMT).
A ceasefire and a new nuclear deal
Trump’s main goal is to end the three-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine, which he now says is “a harder nut to crack” than he thought it would be. The White House said Donald Trump wants to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy again if the negotiations go well.
Putin has proposed a new nuclear arms limitation agreement, which has thrown a kink into the talks at the last minute. The West’s sanctions are still affecting Russia’s economy, which is still at war, so this offer comes at a bad moment. In February, the last significant nuclear pact between the two countries will cease. People who know the Kremlin well suggest that the sanctions are making Russia more likely to acquiesce to some of the requests at the summit.
Ukraine’s absence and worries from its allies
People in Kyiv and Europe are anxious about the summit because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wasn’t invited to the meeting in Alaska. Allies are fearful that Trump could weaken Ukraine’s position and push for a deal that is beneficial for Russia.
But a recent talk between European leaders and Zelenskiy seems to have eased some of these fears. People say Trump informed them that any talks about handing up land must involve Ukraine and that he agreed to the idea of security guarantees in a deal after the war. Zelenskiy has confirmed the deal, but Trump hasn’t spoken anything about it in public.
People all over the world will be very interested in what occurs in Alaska today. The talks could have a huge impact on the future of the issue in Ukraine and the world as a whole.