Trump and Putin Meet For A Summit in Alaska. What Are the Views From Moscow and Kyiv?
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump hosts his Russian counterpart in Alaska today. |
| 0:05.9 | They am present and he's not going to mess around with me. |
| 0:08.7 | But can Trump convince Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine fairly? |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Michelle Martin. That's A. Martinez. And this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:19.6 | Putin was once an international pariah because of Russia's war in Ukraine, but now he's |
| 0:24.5 | being hosted at a high-stakes peace summit on U.S. soil. |
| 0:27.5 | How much of an opportunity for diplomatic and economic cooperation with the U.S. does the summit |
| 0:32.1 | provide? |
| 0:32.8 | And Russia has pushed back against, including Ukrainian president,odymyr Zelensky in peace talks, |
| 0:38.1 | until Moscow and Washington first clinch a deal. What concessions might Ukraine be forced to make? |
| 0:43.8 | Stay with us. We've got all the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:52.8 | President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet today in Anchorage, Alaska, |
| 0:57.6 | for a high-stakes summit aimed at ending Russia's war with Ukraine. |
| 1:00.9 | At least that's Trump's stated goal. |
| 1:03.3 | And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end very quickly. |
| 1:06.1 | And if it's a good meeting, we'll end up getting peace in the pretty near future. |
| 1:09.6 | But Ukrainian president |
| 1:11.1 | Vladimir Zelensky was not invited. That meeting Trump says could come next. All I want to do is set |
| 1:17.1 | the table for the next meeting, which should happen shortly. I'd like to see it happen very quickly, |
| 1:22.3 | very shortly after this meeting. MPR senior White House correspondent, Tamara Keith, is in Anchorage. |
| 1:29.5 | Tam, what's expected for this big summit? This will all take place at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson on the outskirts of |
| 1:35.1 | Anchorage. The meeting is set to start at 11 a.m. local time out here. That's 3 p.m. on the East |
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