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Trump suggests other European leaders, including Zelensky, could be invited to a second meeting following today’s summit
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Russian and American delegations have arrived in Alaska ahead of the crucial summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin later today.
Ahead of the summit, Mr Trump claimed the Russian leader was “not going to mess around with me”, as the US president hopes to seal a Ukraine ceasefire deal.
The US president also floated the idea that European leaders could be invited to participate in a second meeting, which would include Volodymyr Zelensky.
The main aim of today’s meeting is to set up talks between Putin and the Ukrainian president, Mr Trump told Fox News Radio, adding that he has three locations in mind for such a meeting.
The US president, who is gearing up to meet his Russian counterpart for the first time since 2018, said that he thinks both leaders “will make peace”. Friday’s talks between the presidents will include a one-on-one meeting, a bilateral lunch with both delegations and a press conference, the White House announced.
Earlier on Thursday, the Russian leader praised Mr Trump’s “sincere efforts” towards ending the war in Ukraine, telling Kremlin officials the US is making “quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the fighting”.
Here’s who we know will be forming the United State delegation at talks today in Anchorage, Alaska with Russia:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Russia “never plans ahead” as Trump said on Thursday there was a 25 per cent chance the summit would fail.
“We know that we have arguments, a clear, understandable position. We will state it,” Lavrov said in footage posted to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Telegram channel.
Trump floated the idea that if the meeting succeeds he could bring Zelenskyy to Alaska for a subsequent, three-way meeting, a possibility that Russia hasn’t agreed to.
A peaceful resolution to the war between Russia and Ukraine would boost the value of Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar “quite significantly”, its CEO Oleksandr Komarov said on Friday ahead of the company’s New York listing.
“We will be the best asset for the international investment community to invest in Ukraine, to invest in the Ukrainian recovery, to invest in the Ukrainian support,” Komarov said in an interview with Reuters.
Kyivstar is set to debut trading on the Nasdaq later on Friday, becoming the first Ukraine-based company listed on a U.S. stock exchange.
The IPO coincides with a highly anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, a meeting closely watched by Ukraine and European nations as a potential turning point in peace negotiations.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov appears to be wearing a USSR sweatshirt as he arrives in Anchorage, Alaska, ahead of President Vladimir Putin.
The Ukrainian military said on Friday that it had struck the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region overnight.
In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, Kyiv’s military reported a fire and explosions at the refinery, which it said produces a range of fuels and is one of the biggest in the Rosneft system.
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Anchorage, Alaska for the Trump-Putin summit.
Lavrov is set to play a key member of Putin’s delegation, having been Russia’s foreign minister for over two decades.
As the world’s attention shifts to Alaska for the critical summit on Ukraine between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it also shines a light on an area crucial to global security, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley.
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