Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next week to discuss Ukraine war
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🗓️ 9 August 2025
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet next week in Alaska to discuss an end to Russia's war on Ukraine.
President Trump and the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement Friday at the White House.
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| 0:45.5 | Today, what we know about Trump and Putin's meeting next week, plus the Trump involves peace agreement for Armenia and Azerbaijan. |
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| 0:59.3 | President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet next week in Alaska |
| 1:04.1 | to discuss an end to the three-year Russian war on Ukraine. |
| 1:07.3 | It will be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since Trump returned |
| 1:10.8 | to the White House in January. The announcement came on the same day a Trump-imposed deadline on Putin |
| 1:15.5 | to end the war in Ukraine expired. Talks have been floated for months and were initially |
| 1:20.0 | supposed to include Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with Trump facilitating the negotiations. |
| 1:25.2 | But when that did not make progress, Trump said earlier this week |
| 1:28.1 | that he was open to meeting Putin without Zelensky's presence as a requirement. |
| 1:32.5 | Trump has threatened to impose secondary tariffs of up to 100% on countries that trade with Russia, |
| 1:37.9 | particularly those in the energy sector. And this week he also signed an executive order |
| 1:41.9 | imposing an additional 25% tariff on imports from India |
| 1:45.3 | and retaliation for the country's Russian oil imports, doubling India's U.S. tariff rate to 50%. |
| 1:51.3 | Addressing reporters at the White House earlier yesterday, Trump suggested an agreement would involve |
| 1:55.7 | some exchange of land. But Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said earlier today that Ukraine could not violate its |
| 2:02.2 | constitution on the territorial issues, adding that Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupiers. |
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