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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump Welcomes Putin to Alaska for Ukraine Talks

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin head into negotiations over ending the Ukraine war, three years after Russia's invasion. But news leaks suggest Putin wants territorial gains that would let him leapfrog Ukraine's "fortress belt." Meantime, Trump is sounding more serious all the time about increasing U.S. leverage, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky isn't at the table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to me today in Anchorage, Alaska,

0:43.8

with Trump still pushing for peace, but sounding more skeptical all the time that his Russian

0:48.5

counterpart wants to stop the war that Russia started by invading Ukraine three years ago. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson

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with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member

1:01.8

Jillian Melcher in London, and columnist Kim Strassel. The Alaska Summit is about to begin

1:08.5

as we tape this, President Trump taking off on Air Force One

1:11.8

around 8 a.m., accompanied by a coterie of U.S. officials, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

1:18.4

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff, John Ratcliffe, the CIA Director,

1:24.7

among others. President Vladimir Putin is set to land at about 11 a.m. local time

1:30.2

attending the summit along with AIDS, including Sergei Lavrov, the longtime Russian foreign minister.

1:36.6

This will be Putin's first time in the United States since 2015 when he attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Trump and Putin this morning

1:46.8

are reportedly scheduled for a meeting with interpreters, a working breakfast, and then potentially

1:52.7

a joint news conference. Here's part of what Trump said on Air Force One talking about the killing of

1:59.5

civilians, which is getting in the way of negotiations.

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