What do Putin and Trump want each of the Alaska summit?

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will go to the US State Summit in Alaska with contrasting priorities when they are preparing for negotiations to end the war in Russia in Ukraine.

Putin corresponded to his desire to win the Ukrainian territory, while Trump did not urge his desire to act as a global peacekeeper.

But both men can also feel other opportunities such as diplomatic rehabilitation on the world stage by Putin. Trump’s goals are more difficult to do because he recently made up -to -date statements about his Russian counterpart.

Here is a more complete view of what two leaders can want from the meeting.

Russian editor Steve Rosenberg

The first thing Putin wants from this summit is what he has already given.

And this is recognition.

Recognition of the most powerful country in the world, America that the Western efforts to isolate the Kremlin leader failed.

What is happening this high-level meeting testifies to this, as well as the joint press conference announced by the Kremlin. The Kremlin may claim that Russia has returned to the top table of global politics.

“So much for the isolation,” the Moscow Komsolets shot the tabloid earlier this week.

Putin not only provided the US-Russia summit, but also the main place for him. Alaska can offer a lot of the Kremlin.

First, security. At the nearest point, the mainland Alaska is only 90 km (55 miles) from Russian Chukotka. Vladimir Putin can get there without flying over the “hostile” peoples.

Secondly, this is a long way – a very long way – from Ukraine and Europe. It sits well with the Kremlin’s determination to fight Kyiv and EU leaders and directly handle America.

There is also historical symbolism. The fact that Tsaritskaya Russia sold Alaska to America in the 19th century, Moscow uses to justify its attempt to change the border by force in the 21st century.

“Alaska is a clear example that state borders can change, and that large territories can switch ownership,” Moscow Komsomelets wrote.

But Putin wants more than just international recognition and characters.

He wants victory. He insists that Russia retains the entire land it confiscated and occupied in four Ukrainian regions (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaparitzhi and Kherson) and that Kiev will leave the parts of these regions that are still under the control of Ukraine.

This is unacceptable for Ukraine. “Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier,” says the country’s President Vladimir Zelensky.

The Kremlin knows it. But if it provides Trump’s support for its territorial requirements, the calculation may be that Ukraine’s deviation will lead to Trump to reduce Kyiv’s entire support. Meanwhile, Russia and the US will continue to increase relations and development of economic cooperation.

But there is another scenario.

Russia’s economy is under pressure. The budget deficit is increasing, oil and gas exports are increased.

If economic problems push Putin to stop the war, the Kremlin may compromise.

So far, there are no signs – with Russian officials, they continue to insist that Russia is holding the initiative on the battlefield.

According to North America’s correspondent Anthony Tsarcher

During his presidential campaign in 2024, Trump promised that it would be easy to end the war of Ukraine and that he could do it in a matter of days.

This promise hung over the efforts of the US president to resolve the conflict because it alternates between disappointment with Ukrainians and Russians after returning to the White House in January.

In February, he launched Zelensky at a dramatic meeting of the White House, and then temporarily rejected military assistance and intelligence with a nation -destroyed war.

In recent months, he has been more critical of Putin’s unwavering and willingness to attack civic purposes, establishing a number of terms for new sanctions on Russians and other countries that do business with them. Last Friday was the last term, and, like all those who before him, Trump ended up.

He now accepts the Russian president on American soil and talks about “overcoming land”, which Ukraine fears, can consist of land concessions in exchange for peace.

Thus, any discussion that Trump wants to be tangible with vocal statements and actions of the president on Friday.

This week, Trump has made agreed efforts to reduce expectations at this meeting – perhaps the silent recognition of the limited breakthrough capabilities of only one party in the present war.

On Monday, he said the summit would be a “feeling” of the meeting. He suggested that he would know whether he would be able to reach an agreement with the Russian leader, “probably in the first two minutes.”

“I can leave and say success, and it will be the end,” he added. “I can say that it will not be resolved.”

On Tuesday, the White House press secretary Caroline Levitin supported this message, calling the Session Session.

With Trump often it is better to wait for the unexpected. Both Zelensky and European leaders talked to him on Wednesday, trying to make sure he did not conclude an agreement with Putin, that Ukraine is not – or cannot accept.

However, virtually everything was clear: Trump welcomes the opportunity to become a man who ended the war.

In his introductory address, he said he wants his proud heritage to be a “peacekeeper”. It is no secret that he longs for the international recognition of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump is not detailed. But if he has the opportunity to say that he succeeded in peace during the negotiations in an an angric, he will take it.

Putin, always a smart negotiator, can look for a way to make Trump exactly this – with the condition of Russia, of course.