2025 Russia–United States Summit

The 2025 Russia–United States Summit (also known as the Alaska Summit, or the Alaska 2025 or the Trump–Putin Summit) was a meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.https://www.kyivpost.com/post/58188. Retrieved 2025-08-16 It happened on August 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.

It was the first meeting between Trump and Putin since Trump was re-elected in 2024 and first since their last meeting in 2019 in Osaka. They mostly talked about the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war, which Trump wants to end. It was be the first time that the summit between Russia and the United States would be hosted in the United States since the Governors Island Summit in 1988 rather than in Russia or any third countries.

Response
Hours after the end of the summit, the foreign minister of Norway, said that "it is time to put more pressure on" the Russian president.https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/W0r5ag/eide-etter-toppmoetet-regner-med-aa-vite-mer-i-loepet-av-morgentimene. Retrieved 2025-08-16

The Ukrainian president and the U.S. president had a longhttps://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/det-hvite-hus-trump-har-snakket-med-zelenskyj/s/5-95-2570365. Retrieved 2025-08-16 phone call; That happened hours after the end of the summit.

Related pages
Détente
2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
Second presidency of Donald Trump

References

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