The president of the United States, Donald Trumpleft on the morning of this Friday towards Anchorage, Alaska, where he will look face to face with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin To dialogue on a truce in Ukraine, a meeting to which it will arrive accompanied by much of the narrowest circle of its cabinet.
“A lot is at stake !!!”, insisted the US president in his social Truth network shortly before leaving from Washington to the northern state, the scene of the first meeting between leaders of both countries since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022.
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The senior officials that accompany Trump include the Secretaries of State, Marco Rubio; Treasury, Scott Besent; of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, in addition to the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe and his head of dispatch, Susie Wiles.
The US Official Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt and the special presidential envoy, Steve Witkoff, in charge of negotiating with Putin in Moscow on behalf of Trump in the name of Trump. “
Trump has said that he wants a second “very soon” appointment that also includes the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, if his conversation with Putin marches well.
Asked if the US would offer kyiv security guarantees before an eventual peace agreement with Moscow, Trump replied with a “perhaps” and added that in that case this support would be in conjunction with European nations, but “not in the form of NATO.”
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“I think something is going to leave this meeting (with Putin). I noticed that he is bringing many entrepreneurs in Russia, and that’s fine. I like it, because they want to do business, but we will not do business until we solve the worst,” said the president, who reiterated that if his Russian counterpart does not commit to peace in Ukraine could face even more economic sanctions.
Trump and Putin will meet today at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base of the city of Anchorage, in the American Alaska territory that was part of Russia until 1867.
The military enclave is one of the most important positions to monitor and counteract Russia in the Arctic. The American president has reduced the expectations of this first meeting between the two leaders since 2019, after recognizing that obtaining peace in Ukraine “was something more difficult than I thought,” after promising before arriving at the White House in January that would achieve it in 24 hours.
Trump hopes to get at least one the fire that opens the door to a peace agreement in which the Ukrainian President participates, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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