White House Considering Inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky To Alaska The Same Time President Putin Is Expected To Visit | JP
Is President Trump about to secure the biggest peace deal in the last five decades?
As JP previousy reported President Trump in a Truth Social Post announced he will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska later in the week.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “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.”
Now, the White House is considering inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Alaska at around the same time.
White House weighs inviting Zelensky to Trump’s face-to-face meeting with Putin in Alaska https://t.co/Ta5PAwYSsr pic.twitter.com/sjWc27YIOO
— New York Post (@nypost) August 9, 2025
NBC News had more details to share on Zelensky’s possible visit to Alaska:
The White House is considering inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Alaska, where President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, according to a senior U.S. official and three people briefed on the internal discussions.
“It’s being discussed,” one of the people briefed on the discussions said.
The senior U.S. official and people briefed on the discussions said no visit has been finalized and that it’s unclear if Zelenskyy would ultimately be in Alaska for meetings.
The senior administration official said it is “absolutely” possible.
“Everyone is very hopeful that would happen,” the official said.
Asked whether the U.S. had officially invited Zelenskyy to Alaska, a senior White House official said: “The President remains open to a trilateral summit with both leaders. Right now, the White House is focusing on planning the bilateral meeting requested by President Putin.”
The Ukrainian government did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump announced Friday that he is meeting with Putin on Aug. 15 in Alaska as he tries to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine. The White House had initially made a Putin meeting with Zelenskyy a condition for a meeting between Trump and the Russian president, but Trump later said that was not a precondition.
It’s a brilliant move by President Trump to have the Ukraine peace talks in Alaska, a place about as far away from European leaders as you can possibly get. Because if they were held in Europe, they’d all be looking to get in a photo op and take credit for it. pic.twitter.com/g6g5nIrvg3
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) August 8, 2025
ABC News shared more details on the long-anticipated meeting between Trump and Putin:
President Donald Trump said he will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Aug. 15 in Alaska.
“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. Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he posted on his social media platform.
Earlier, he had hinted at the timing and location, saying, “I think you’ll be very happy.”
“We are going to have a meeting with Russia. We’ll start off with Russia and we’ll announce a location. I think the location will be a very popular one for a lot of reasons. But we’ll be announcing that a little bit later. I just don’t want to do it now because of the importance of what we just did,” Trump said as he hosted the leaders Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House for a peace summit.
Asked if this is Russia’s last chance to achieve piece, Trump responded, “I don’t like using the term ‘last chance.”