White House: Trump to meet Putin in Anchorage, Alaska
WASHIGNTON (dpa)The highly anticipated meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the US state of Alaska will take place in the city of Anchorage, the White House said on Tuesday.Trump will set off for the meeting on Friday morning, said his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.The US president intends to discuss Russia's war against Ukraine with Putin in Anchorage.Leavitt confirmed that a one-to-one conversation between the two presidents is planned. She did not provide a specific schedule for the meeting and noted that details are still being worked out.Located in the south of Alaska, Anchorage is the largest city in the northernmost US state.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have consulted ahead of the summit in Alaska, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow announced on Tuesday.Lavrov and Rubio expressed their hopes that the details discussed would be successful, the ministry said. However, the brief statement about the phone call did not provide further specifics.
Trump presents the meeting in Alaska as an attempt to move closer to ending the fighting in Ukraine, and has spokes of a possible exchange of territories between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine has meanwhile firmly rejected any territorial concessions.
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