The summit marks Trump’s latest effort to make true his campaign pledge to end the war, following more than six months of failed attempts to urge Putin to stop bombarding Ukrainian cities.
The US President has indicated that this could involve economic sanctions on Moscow, as well as secondary sanctions on those countries, including India, China and Turkey, that are funding its war effort through purchases of Russian oil.
Here, The i Paper talks a closer look at the details surrounding the crucial summit, as well as what the key negotiating points are expected to be.
Trump is expected in Anchorage around 2pm local time (7pm UK time).
Ukraine supporters gather ahead of the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska (Photo: Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia’s delegation will include the Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov; Defence Minister, Andrei Belousov; Finance Minister, Anton Siluanov; presidential aide Yuri Ushakov; and Special Presidential Envoy on Foreign Investment and Economic Co-operation, Kirill Dmitriev.
Volodymyr Zelensky will be absent from the meeting, but Trump hinted on Thursday that the Ukrainian President could join him and Putin for a second meeting if Friday’s summit went well.
European leaders and key members of the Coalition of the Willing, including the UK, France and Germany, will also be absent from the talks today.
Starmer greeting Zelensky at Downing Street on Thursday (Photo: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)While the call was held privately, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the leaders told Trump “Ukraine must be at the table as soon as follow-up meetings take place”, while three officials briefed on the meeting indicated the US was willing to contribute security guarantees for Ukraine if certain conditions were met.
What could happen to Ukraine?
A key sticking point in the lead-up to the Alaska summit has been whether Ukraine will cede part of its territory to Russia in exchange for peace, including about 19 per cent of its land which the Russian military occupies.
Trump said he would update Zelensky and European leaders if Putin proposed a “fair deal” during the summit.
Four possible outcomes for Ukraine being suggested before the Alaska meeting on FridayZelensky has rejected the proposals, saying: “Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier.”
Putin has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine has no right to exist as a country, and made clear that he will not be satisfied than anything other than destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty and existence in their entirety.
John Foreman, former UK defence attaché to Russia, told The i Paper that Moscow might also press for the rollback of Nato’s position to that which was held in 1997, when the Nato-Russia Founding Act was signed, setting a framework for co-operation and security between Moscow and the alliance.
Foreman said that Moscow would not demand that all countries that have joined since 1997 leave, but “wants their armed forces reduced to their very weak, unmodernised status at the time of signing and any Nato forces and infrastructure deployed in the eastern Nato states removed”.
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Read MoreAsked what could come from the summit in Alaska, Luke March, personal chair of post-Soviet and comparative politics at the University of Edinburgh, said: “I’d envisage only very slow or symbolic process, with real achievements further down the line – if at all.
“Certainly, some kind of symbolic ceasefire might emerge – Russia can clearly benefit from a pause in order to regroup as we go into the colder months, but it doesn’t really change the longer-term dynamics of the war.
“But if Putin can somehow, against all hard evidence, persuade Trump that he means peace, and Ukraine is the obstacle – a view Trump is inclined to anyway – that will be a big win.”
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