New Delhi: India welcomes the understanding between the US and Russia for a meeting at Alaska, MEA said in a statement on Saturday. The MEA statement reads that US President Donald Trump announced that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on 15^th August, in Alaska for talks aimed around ending the war in Ukraine.

According to the statement, India welcomes the understanding reached between the US and the Russian Federation for a meeting in Alaska on 15^th August 2025. This meeting holds the promise of bringing to an end the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and opening up the prospects for peace. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said on several occasions, This is not an era of war.

This will be Putin’s first trip to the US since 2015, when he met former President Barack Obama. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff had a meeting with Putin in Moscow for three hours. The US said that the meeting was highly productive.

Trump in a post on Truth Social said that this is the highly anticipated meeting between me as President of the USA and President Vladimir Putin of Russia will take place in the Great State of Alaska, on August 15^th, further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The Russia informed that the two leaders would focus on discussing options for achieving a long-term peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian crisis, describing the process as challenging but one that Moscow would engage in actively and energetically.

Trump speaking to the media persons at the White House, he said during the signing of the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace accord that striking a deal could involve exchanging land. We’re going to get some back, and we’re going to get some switched. There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both, but we’ll be talking about that either later or tomorrow.

However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that they will not give their land to occupiers. The answer to Ukraine’s territorial question is already in the constitution of Ukraine, Zelensky said in a message on Telegram. No one will and no one can deviate from it. Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier.