Trump-Putin summit: The reality of where things stand on the Ukraine battlefield

Published August 15, 2025 5:00am ET



Russian President Vladimir Putin is traveling to Alaska to meet with President Donald Trump to possibly negotiate the end to a conflict that experts believed would have ended more than three years ago.

Their highly anticipated meeting, which could change the trajectory of the conflict, comes just shy of the 3 1/2-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

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