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US President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak during the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with the White House leader Donald Trump on Friday, Ukraine and the world will be watching the precipitation.
State leaders must start their summit at 11:30 local time (15.30pm) at the Elmendorf Military Base Richardson in Acoridge, Alaska.
Then there will be a working lunch for both delegations before the presidents hold a joint press conference to summarize their talks.
The press will undoubtedly become one of the most attentive events this year, showing how close – or far away is the end of the war in Ukraine, which covered more than three and a half years.
“Trump wants to run out all the options to stop at the war quietly,” the White House said on the eve of the Alaska summit.
It remains to know if these “options” will eventually be good or bad for Ukraine.
Not only is the ceasefire mode – if Trump can convince Putin to agree with one but also the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Europe’s security, Russia’s economy and geopolitical alliances.
President of Ukraine Wladimir Zelensky, having a checkered relationship with Trump And he was not invited to the event on Friday, will be nervous when negotiations are underway.
Both he and his European allies fear the US leader could capitulate Qualified Putin negotiator, probable requirements For Moscow, in order to preserve the occupied Ukrainian territory and reduce membership in Ukraine, in return for the cessation of the military offensive.
What is the schedule?
Moscow has published more information about the summit than the White House, which this week confirmed that the negotiations of the presidents would be “one -on”.
The Kremlin repeated this view, saying that Trump and Putin would meet “in the format of the Tet-Titus” behind closed doors with translators in tow, “naturally”, according to Putin’s assistant, Yuri Ushakov.
“Given that there will be very important topics of sensitive topics, the list of negotiators is not big,” Ushakov added in the comments translated by NBC News.
The Russian delegation includes only a few members of Putin’s internal circle, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Defense Andrei Belusov, Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov and Kirill Dmitriev, investment and trade messengers, as well as Ushakov.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks next to Russian President Vladimir Putin when they are waiting for the US-Russia summit in Vile La Grandj, in Geneva on June 16, 2021.
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The presidential assistant commented that “it is obvious to everyone that the main topic would be to resolve the Ukrainian crisis”, including “broader tasks of peace and security”, as well as on the basis of international and regional issues.
Signing that Russia will look for economic benefits from rapprochement with the United States, Ushakov added that “the exchange of views on further development of bilateral cooperation is expected, including in the trade and economic sphere,” noting that “this cooperation has a huge and unusual potential.”
