President Donald Trump said Friday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug.15 in Alaska to talk about an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.
Trump made the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Friday.
“The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote in the post.
Trump’s post did not specify where in Alaska the meeting would take place and said more details would come soon.
The meeting comes amid frustration from the Trump administration over continued fighting between Russia and Ukraine, more than three years after Russia’s invasion in 2022. The Associated Press reports that the president said he will meet with Putin before any sit-down meeting involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This will be Trump’s first trip to the state since being reelected last year, but it won’t be his first time in the state as president. In 2019, he visited Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson while flying back to the U.S. from a summit in Vietnam. He also held a campaign rally in Anchorage in 2022 to show support for U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka and U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin.
Russian media outlets also reported the upcoming visit. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov said that Russian and American economic interests intersect in Alaska and the Arctic.
The independent news agency Meduza wrote that Putin’s visit to Alaska would be his first visit to the U.S. since September 2015 and his first time coming to the western United States.
Alena Naiden contributed to this story.
