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Moscow.- The Kremlin confirmed today that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, will meet for a bilateral summit on August 15 in Alaska, as announced minutes earlier by the US president himself.
“Russia and the United States are close neighbors that share borders, and it seems entirely logical that our delegation simply cross the Bering Strait and that Alaska host such an important and anticipated summit of the leaders of both countries,” said Russian presidential aide for International Affairs, Yuri Ushakov, quoted by local agencies.
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According to Ushakov, both leaders will first discuss "options for achieving a long-term peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis". At the same time, he indicated that Moscow hopes the next meeting between Putin and Trump will be held on Russian territory. "The respective invitation has already been delivered to the President of the United States," Ushakov said. The last time Putin met with a U.S. leader was in 2021, in a meeting with then-President Joe Biden, held in Geneva. Meanwhile, the last summit between Putin and Trump took place in Helsinki in 2018.
