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What Alaska summit plans meant by 12 August 2025
Summary
A look back at the diplomatic build-up to the planned Trump–Putin meeting on the war in Ukraine.
What was known about the planned Trump–Putin meeting on 12 August 2025? By then, U.S. president Donald Trump had announced, on 10 August, that he would meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska on 15 August for talks on ending the war in Ukraine.
The announcement set the date and the location: Alaska, in the United States. The stated purpose was to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. On 12 August, the meeting was still three days away, and the fact of the talks was the main development in the diplomacy around the war.
What happened later
The summit took place on 15 August 2025 at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. The main topic was the war in Ukraine. It ended without an agreement being announced. Trump later suggested that, in his view, the onus was now on Ukraine to cede territory in order to end the war.
That outcome was not known on 12 August. On that date, the meeting remained an announced plan.
