US President Donald Trump announced that he will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on August 15 in Alaska, BTA reported.
"The long-awaited meeting between me as President of the United States of America and President of Russia Vladimir Putin will take place next Friday, August 15, in the Great State of Alaska. Stay tuned for details," Trump wrote in a post on his social network "Truth Social".
On Thursday, Putin confirmed that a meeting with Trump about the war in Ukraine is planned, and suggested the United Arab Emirates as a possible host for the talks.
Russia has been waging a destructive war against Ukraine for more than three years. Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to end the conflict as soon as possible, DPA notes.
The meeting will be the first between a sitting US president and Putin since 2021, when Joe Biden met with Putin in Geneva.
Earlier yesterday, Trump said that Ukraine and Russia would likely "trade" parts of the territories as part of an agreement to end the war and described the plans in this direction as very complex.
The American leader previously noted that he intends to first meet with Putin and then the talks to develop into a trilateral one, also involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
But the Kremlin expressed reservations about a meeting between Putin and Zelensky.
On Thursday, the Russian leader said that in his opinion it is not impossible to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, but according to him, such negotiations require the necessary conditions and prerequisites, which in his opinion are far from being fulfilled so far.
Putin did not name his conditions, but the Kremlin has previously insisted that Ukraine give up the lands that Russia has occupied, including Crimea, which it illegally annexed in 2014, and also that the West stop supplying Kiev with weapons and rule out any possibility of Ukrainian membership in NATO.
Zelensky and his European allies rejected these demands.