Trump–Putin Summit Faces Long-Standing Sticking Points

The U.S. president has suggested the meeting could see some ‘land-swapping,’ raising concerns in Kyiv and Brussels.

(Left) U.S. President Donald Trump at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on July 29, 2025. (Right) Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 8, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

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President Donald Trump is set to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska on Aug. 15 amid limited expectations of any significant breakthroughs in peace negotiations in the Russia–Ukraine war.