The 2025 Russia-United States Summit (also known as the Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska) was a summit meeting between United States president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was held on August 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.The main topic of discussion was the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.[2][3] The summit ended without an agreement being announced, although Trump later intimated that in his view the onus was now on Ukraine to cede territory in order to end the war.
It was the first time Putin was invited to a Western country since he ordered the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and his 8th visit to the United States, his last occuring in 2015. It was also the first US-hosted meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States since 2007, when Putin met with George W. Bush in Maine and the first held at a military base.
The "spirit of Anchorage" emerged as diplomatic slogan used mainly by Russian officials to signify the common understandings achieved at this meeting and that could advance the peace process. During the meeting Putin went on a history lecture about Ukraine and Russia being "one nation," which caused Trump to raise his voice and threaten to walk out. Trump later proposed lifting sanctions against Russia for a ceasefire, but this was rejected by Putin, who insisted on Ukraine ceding territory in the Donbas region. Trump cancelled the working lunch, during which the delegations were supposed to discuss economic cooperation. Putin stayed in Alaska for approximately 5 hours.
The global stage meeting replete with a "pink" carpet, Putin's first with a Western country since his invasion of Ukraine in 2022, was generally perceived as a victory for Putin who faces an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, and a failure for Trump whose minimum expectation and offer of a temporary cease-fire through the lifting of sanctions was not achieved, in his words, "We didn't get there".
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