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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! Trump says he will meet with Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15 U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday afternoon that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15. Trump’s deadline for Russia to cease its war in Ukraine was slated to expire on Friday, and markets are watching whether the White House will proceed with steep penalties on Moscow’s oil clients. “President Putin, I believe, wants to see peace, and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy wants to see peace now,” Trump said Friday, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House. News of the upcoming meeting arrives as The Wall Street Journal reported, citing European and Ukrainian officials, that Putin presented the Trump administration with a ceasefire proposal this week that would call for territorial concessions from Kyiv. Increasingly frustrated with the Kremlin, Trump has pledged “secondary tariffs” of “about 100%” on Russia’s trad