SpaceWar.com reports: “U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to meet Friday in Alaska in hopes for a cease-fire in the war in Ukraine that was waged since February 2022.

It will be the presidents’ first in-person meeting since the G20 summit in Japan in 2019 during Trump’s first term.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has not been invited, a source told The Washington Post.

Putin on Thursday said he opposed meeting with Zelensky, saying ‘for this to happen, certain conditions must be created. Unfortunately, we are still far from creating such conditions.’

Trump announced the meeting on Friday night on Truth Social.

‘The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,’ Trump posted…”