US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin speak during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, 2017
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As the Russian President Vladimir Putin leads to face on Friday with the leader of the White House Donald Trump, the Ukraine and the world with the breath will watch.
The heads of state and government will start their summit at 11:30 a.m. local time (3:30 p.m. et) in the Elmendorf Richardson Military Base in Anchorage, Alaska.
There will then be a working lunch for both delegations before the presidents hold a joint press conference to summarize their conversations.
The press will undoubtedly be one of the closest events of this year and reveal how close – or far – is the end of the war in Ukraine, which has exceeded more than three and a half years.
“The president wants to exhaust all the possibilities to put this war into a peaceful solution,” said the White House on the eve of the Alaska summit.
It remains to be seen whether these “options” will ultimately be good or bad for Ukraine.
It is not just about a ceasefire at the game – if Trump can persuade Putin to agree – but also the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the security of Europe, the Russian economy and the geopolitical alliances.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has a checked relationship with Trump and was not invited to Friday, will be nervous when the talks begin.
Both he and his European allies fear that the US leader maintains the likely claims of specialist Putin to Moscow, occupied Ukrainian territory and reduce NATO membership of Ukraine to prevent his military offensive.
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Moscow has published more details about the summit than the White House, which only confirmed this week that the presidents' talks would be a “one -on -one interview”.
The Kremlin repeated this view and explained that, according to Putin's Aide, Trump and Putin will meet outside affairs, Yuri Ushakov, “in a Tete-A-Tet format” behind closed doors with translators in tow.
“In view of the fact that very important topics are discussed sensitive, the list of participants in the negotiations is not great,” added Ushakov in comments that were translated by NBC News.
The Russia's delegation includes only a few members of Putin's inner circle, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Kirill Dmitriev, Russia's investment and trading, as well as Ushakov, Russia's Minister of Investment and Ushakov.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is looking at the Russian President Vladimir Putin, while waiting for the US Russia summit in the Villa La Grange in Geneva on June 16, 2021.
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The president's adjutant said that “it is obvious to everyone that the central topic will be the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis”, including the “broader tasks to ensure peace and security” as well as the urgent international and regional questions.
Ushakov signals that Russia will cause the economic advantages of an approximation to the United States, and added that “an exchange of views in relation to the further development of bilateral cooperation is expected, including in retail and business” and determine that “this cooperation has enormous and unfortunately unsettled potential”.
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