US President Donald Trump says he will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on August 15 in Alaska.
He also suggests that a deal between Moscow and Kyiv could involve swapping territory held by the two sides.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, with millions forced to flee their homes in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Putin held consultations toay with the leaders of China and India to seek support ahead of the summit with Trump, who has spent his first months in office trying to broker peace in Ukraine without making a breakthrough.
“I’ll be meeting very shortly with President Putin. It would have been sooner, but I guess there’s security arrangements that unfortunately people have to make,” Trump says at the White House.
The US president also says “there’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both” Ukraine and Russia and that the issue will be discussed soon, without providing further details.
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