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United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska on Friday to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine.
Trump announced the August 15 meeting on social media and it was later confirmed by a Kremlin spokesperson, who said the location was “quite logical” given Alaska’s relative proximity to Russia.
The announcement of the meeting came just hours after Trump had signalled that Ukraine might have to cede territory in order to end the war.
The US president did not provide further details of what that proposal would look like.
Sources familiar with the discussions said the White House is trying to sway European leaders to accept an agreement that would include Russia taking the entire Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and keeping Crimea.
It would give up the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, which it partially occupies, as part of the proposed agreement.
Earlier on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Putin had proposed a similar arrangement to Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff during a recent meeting in Moscow. — bbc.com
