Trump plans to meet up with Putin in the near future.
The long-awaited meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to take place in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. The announcement was made by White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, with President Trump confirming the news during a press conference in Washington.
The exact date and time of the summit are yet to be finalized, but it is expected to happen soon. The decision to hold the meeting in Finland was agreed upon by both leaders.
The meeting will mark Putin's first trip to the U.S. in about a decade and is attracting significant international attention. The event aims to facilitate high-level dialogue, but experts caution it is too soon to predict any concrete outcomes.
The focus of the meeting is expected to be on a wide range of issues, including arms control, Syria, Ukraine, and North Korea. This will be the first official summit between President Trump and President Putin since President Trump took office.
The last official summit between the two leaders was in 2017, when President Trump met with President Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Since then, the United States and Russia have not held an official summit.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not attend the meeting, but he is coordinating with partners and will have a virtual call with Trump and Vice President JD Vance around the time of the summit.
President Trump hinted that he may comment on the location of the meeting later today (local time). The meeting will take place at a location yet to be disclosed.
The White House has described the meeting as a "listening exercise" and a "feel-out meeting" intended to explore whether a ceasefire in Ukraine is possible. Trump has indicated that he does not intend to make any deal himself but hopes to determine within the first minutes whether a ceasefire deal with Putin could be feasible.
As the date of the meeting approaches, the world watches with bated breath, eager to see the outcome of this historic encounter between the leaders of the United States and Russia.
The upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to cover a wide range of global issues, including war-and-conflicts such as arms control, Syria, Ukraine, and North Korea. This high-level dialogue, taking place in Helsinki, Finland, is attracting significant general-news attention, as it marks President Putin's first trip to the U.S. in about a decade.
