Donald Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin “one-on-one” in Alaska, the White House has confirmed. The two leaders will not be flanked by their advisers when they come face-to-face for a highly-anticipated meeting in Anchorage on Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, Mr Trump’s press secretary said.

Whether the U.S.-Russia summit can lead to a deal to produce peace in Ukraine more than 3 1/2 years after Moscow’s invasion remains to be seen.

In August 2025, as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to meet in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine, speculation swirled online about whether Trump could or should arrest the Russian president at the meeting on a warrant from the International Criminal Court that accused Putin of carrying out war crimes.