{"id":56227,"date":"2025-08-09T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56227\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:25:07","slug":"trump-says-he-will-meet-with-putin-in-alaska-next-week-to-discuss-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56227\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will meet with Putin in Alaska next week to discuss war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire towards Russian positions in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on Thursday.Evgeniy Maloletka\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska late next week and called for the \u201cswapping of territories\u201d between Russia and Ukraine to end their war.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump announced the \u201chighly anticipated meeting\u201d on Truth Social Friday, which marked the deadline he had set for Mr. Putin to agree to a ceasefire in the conflict or face stepped-up U.S. sanctions. Mr. Trump said the sit-down would take place on Friday, Aug. 15. <\/p>\n

The meeting is the second time in as many months that Mr. Trump has hosted on U.S. soil a world leader wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. The President met in July at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the court accuses of murder in connection with the invasion of Gaza.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. is not a party to the International Criminal Court \u2013 unlike Canada and 124 other countries \u2013 meaning the Americans have no obligation to arrest Mr. Putin when he is on their territory.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Mr. Trump suggested a peace deal would involve Ukraine giving up land to Russia. It was unclear how this would happen, as Ukraine has adamantly refused to cede any of its territory while Mr. Putin has reportedly recently escalated his annexation demands, including asking for land not currently occupied by his military.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both, but we\u2019ll be talking about that either later or tomorrow or whatever,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki in July, 2018, during Trump’s first term.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He also implied that he was turning up pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not authorized to do certain things, I said \u2018Well, you\u2019re going to have to get it fast because we\u2019re getting very close to a deal,\u2019\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cPresident Zelensky has to get all of his \u2013 everything he needs \u2013 because he\u2019s going to have to get ready to sign something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump did not specify what Mr. Zelensky has to get authorization for or from whom. Mr. Zelensky has previously pointed out that giving up Ukrainian territory would be against the country\u2019s constitution, which can only be changed after a referendum.<\/p>\n

The U.S. President won last year\u2019s election in part on a pledge to end the Russia-Ukraine War immediately. But he has so far been unable to broker a peace agreement and has become frustrated with the Kremlin. \u201cHe\u2019s just tapping me along,\u201d he said of Mr. Putin this past spring.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, however, has been reluctant to impose more sanctions on Moscow and has suggested he does not want the U.S. to spend any more money on Ukraine\u2019s defence. Last month, he initially gave Mr. Putin a 50-day deadline to stop the fighting, which he later shortened to this Friday. In the interim, the Russian President has continued his invasion of Ukraine, including deadly missile attacks on civilians in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

During the previous Biden administration, the U.S. allocated US$175-billion in military and other aid to Ukraine and co-ordinated a slew of international sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n

Mr. Zelensky said on X Friday that \u201cthe Russians are ignoring\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s ceasefire demand, keeping up a steady stream of drone strikes and bombings throughout the day.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Mr. Putin\u2019s conditions for a ceasefire included recognition of Ukraine\u2019s Donbas and Crimea regions as part of Russia. Moscow has occupied the latter since 2014 and has taken over much, but not all, of the former since Mr. Putin began his full-scale invasion in 2022.<\/p>\n

Ukraine says its troops also continue to occupy a small piece of Russian territory in Kursk Oblast.<\/p>\n

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An explosion during a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on Friday.Gleb Garanich\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Igor Logvinenko, an international affairs expert at Occidental College in Los Angeles, said that not only do Mr. Putin\u2019s terms go far beyond the basis for a ceasefire but that they would be impossible for any Ukrainian leader to accept.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are not ceasefire negotiation terms, they\u2019re capitulation demands,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re a non-starter in Ukraine. There are no terms that are acceptable to Russia that any reasonable Ukrainian politician would survive politically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof. Logvinenko said Mr. Trump appears to have overestimated his ability to handle Mr. Putin. \u201cWhatever this bromance is, it\u2019s finally hitting the reality of what\u2019s happening on the ground and the intractable issues that neither side wants to give in on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael O\u2019Hanlon, a defence and national security expert at the Brookings Institution, expressed hope that Mr. Trump\u2019s tough rhetoric on Mr. Putin meant that he would have to follow through on his threats of serious consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsent a good reason, he will look indecisive or weak if he walks away from the meeting with Putin with nothing, yet fails to toughen sanctions and tariffs nonetheless,\u201d Mr. O\u2019Hanlon wrote in an e-mail.<\/p>\n

Still, he said, Mr. Putin might find a way to keep stringing Mr. Trump along. \u201cThe most likely outcome is perhaps a small concession by Putin (fewer attacks on cities, for example, for a while) in exchange for no toughening of sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has tabled a bill that would impose 500 per cent tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil and gas in a bid to further isolate the Russian economy. Legislators did not vote on it before heading home for the summer, leaving it up to Mr. Trump what, if anything, to do if Mr. Putin remains intransigent.<\/p>\n

Last week, Mr. Trump said he would double tariffs on India to 50 per cent, in part as a punishment for buying Russian oil. He also holds leverage over Mr. Zelensky, as not all of the military aid approved by Congress has been sent to Ukraine. Last month, the Pentagon briefly held back some missile defence systems meant for Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Both Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelensky tried to shore up international support this week. Mr. Putin spoke with President Xi Jinping of China and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr. Zelensky, meanwhile, telephoned the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Latvia. Both Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelensky had conversations with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire towards Russian positions in the Zaporizhzhia region of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-56227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}