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White House is considering inviting Zelenskyy to Alaska
Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday to discuss a potential ceasefire in Ukraine.
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European leaders rally behind Ukraine as White House open to inviting Zelenskyy to Trump-Putin meeting
European nations have rallied behind Ukraine as President Trump prepares for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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NATO Secretary General Rutte says Trump-Putin summit is about 'testing Putin'
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Friday’s summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska will be an important test for Putin.
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Putin ally warns 'titanic efforts' are underway to sink Trump summit over Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin envoy warns of diplomatic sabotage attempts targeting upcoming Trump-Putin Alaska summit focused on Ukraine peace negotiations.
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我希望丫床大爷倒霉！……
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| President Trump’s sharp criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday is sending chills across Europe, where leaders are working to guard against the worst-case scenario: Trump aligning with Russia. |
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[/td]| Trump blew past a deadline last week to impose punishing sanctions on Russia and its primary trading partners in exchange for the face-to-face meeting with Putin, set for Friday in Alaska. And while the president has expressed increased frustration with Putin and Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, he this week reverted to criticisms that Zelensky is to blame for starting the war. “[Trump] is very unpredictable,” Lesia Zaburanna, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament in Zelensky’s Servant of the People party and the deputy chair of the budget committee, said in a call with The Hill. “We highly appreciate all American support, and we highly appreciate all military, financial support. But if we talk about the situation with Trump’s negotiation, we are not sure what we will have on Friday.” The worst case scenario, Zaburanna said, would be if Trump reached an agreement with Putin on territorial concessions without Ukraine, and a fatal blow for Kyiv would be if Trump withdrew U.S. support, particularly intelligence sharing on the battlefield and military support. Zaburanna described living in Kyiv now as similar to the first days of the full-scale invasion — nightly air raid alarms, massive explosions, menacing drone attacks, destruction of civilian buildings and mounting casualties. Trump has provided few details on his goals for the meeting, telling reporters Monday he’s using the summit as an opportunity to “feel out” Putin, who has so far rebuffed all his calls for a ceasefire and increased the pace of attacks on Ukraine. But Zelensky told reporters this week that Ukraine could be asked to withdraw from the Donbas region to attain a ceasefire. Zelensky said he’d received these indications from Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to the region. “During the call, I said that I am not ready to discuss Ukraine’s territories, as this is solely a matter of our Constitution,” Zelensky added. While Trump has called Putin’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine “cold,” he also offered criticism this week of Zelensky. “I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelensky was saying, ‘I have to get constitutional approval.’ He has approval to do a war and kill everybody, but he needs approval for land swapping?” Trump told reporters Monday. Marko Mihkelson, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament, described it as “quite crazy” that Trump was putting pressure on Zelensky instead of calling out Putin for launching the war. “We don’t have any high hopes on what’s going to happen in Alaska,” he said in a phone call with The Hill. Read the full report at TheHill.com. |
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Trump alone in a room with Putin is a recipe for disaster – just look to their last meeting
Andrew Rothin Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/trump-putin-meeting-alaska
The two plan to meet behind closed doors Friday in Alaska to discuss ‘land swapping’. What will happen this time?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/trump-putin-meeting-alaska
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https://www.theguardian.com › world › aug › trump-pu...
2 hours ago — The lessons of Helsinki are clear: putting Donald Trump alone in a room with Vladimir Putin is an unpredictable – and often dangerous – affair.
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床床遇到丁丁，咋就不灵了涅？
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Will Trump get played by Putin? Europe is worried
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President Trump’s sharp criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday is sending chills across Europe, where leaders are working to guard against the worst-case scenario: Trump aligning with Russia.
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Trump blew past a deadline last week to impose punishing sanctions on Russia and its primary trading partners in exchange for the face-to-face meeting with Putin, set for Friday in Alaska.
And while the president has expressed increased frustration with Putin and Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, he this week reverted to criticisms that Zelensky is to blame for starting the war.
“[Trump] is very unpredictable,” Lesia Zaburanna, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament in Zelensky’s Servant of the People party and the deputy chair of the budget committee, said in a call with The Hill.
“We highly appreciate all American support, and we highly appreciate all military, financial support. But if we talk about the situation with Trump’s negotiation, we are not sure what we will have on Friday.”
The worst case scenario, Zaburanna said, would be if Trump reached an agreement with Putin on territorial concessions without Ukraine, and a fatal blow for Kyiv would be if Trump withdrew U.S. support, particularly intelligence sharing on the battlefield and military support.
Zaburanna described living in Kyiv now as similar to the first days of the full-scale invasion — nightly air raid alarms, massive explosions, menacing drone attacks, destruction of civilian buildings and mounting casualties.
Trump has provided few details on his goals for the meeting, telling reporters Monday he’s using the summit as an opportunity to “feel out” Putin, who has so far rebuffed all his calls for a ceasefire and increased the pace of attacks on Ukraine.
But Zelensky told reporters this week that Ukraine could be asked to withdraw from the Donbas region to attain a ceasefire. Zelensky said he’d received these indications from Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to the region.
“During the call, I said that I am not ready to discuss Ukraine’s territories, as this is solely a matter of our Constitution,” Zelensky added.
While Trump has called Putin’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine “cold,” he also offered criticism this week of Zelensky.
“I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelensky was saying, ‘I have to get constitutional approval.’ He has approval to do a war and kill everybody, but he needs approval for land swapping?” Trump told reporters Monday.
Marko Mihkelson, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament, described it as “quite crazy” that Trump was putting pressure on Zelensky instead of calling out Putin for launching the war.
“We don’t have any high hopes on what’s going to happen in Alaska,” he said in a phone call with The Hill.
Read the full report at TheHill.com.
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据德国媒体《图片报》报道，一些人认为，普京呼吁从乌克兰东部的赫尔松和扎波罗热“和平撤军”，而维特科夫误解了普京的呼吁，认为这意味着要从那里撤出俄罗斯军队。
然而，他们认为，普京的真正意思是让乌克兰军队撤出俄罗斯在战争期间试图吞并的这两个地区。
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, “misunderstood” Russian leader Vladimir Putin, German news outlet BILD reported.
Witkoff’s Kremlin talks ‘constructive’ as US sanctions deadline looms
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According to the outlet’s sources, Witkoff’s ceasefire proposal delivered to Putin in recent discussions entailed freezing the conflict along the current lines of control. In return, the Kremlin would see a broad lifting of sanctions and an offer of new economic agreements.
This offer does not satisfy the Russians, however, who still insist on full control of the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions and southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Bild reported.
Russia currently occupies practically all of the Luhansk region and most of the Donetsk region, where its forces have been making creeping advances since the start of the war. These are also the only regions whose capitals are under Russian control, after Ukraine successfully liberated the city of Kherson back in November 2022.
In spite of that, Russia claims ownership of the entirety of the regions’ territories based on “referendums” it carried out in areas under its control in late September 2022.
What is more, Witkoff appears to have misinterpreted some statements made by Putin as concessions. One example cited by BILD was the Russian leader’s demand for a “peaceful withdrawal” of Ukrainian forces from Russian-claimed territory. Witkoff reportedly understood this as an offer of a “peaceful withdrawal” of Russian forces.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly said Ukraine would never recognize Russia’s sovereignty over its conquered regions and rejected Moscow’s other demands, such as the pledge to abandon Kyiv’s ambition to join NATO.
“Witkoff doesn’t know what he's talking about,” BILD quoted one Ukrainian official as saying, an assessment reportedly shared by representatives of the German government.
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In a recent conference call between Witkoff, State Secretary Marco Rubio, and Vice President JD Vance and European representatives, the special envoy was clearly out of his depth, the outlet wrote.
BILD reports that the Europeans found the envoy’s statement about his conversation with Putin “confusing,” and Witkoff seemed “overwhelmed and incompetent” when discussing territorial issues.
Witkoff, a real estate billionaire, had no diplomatic experience before being appointed by Trump to serve as his special envoy for the Middle East, but was subsequently tasked with seeking a ceasefire in Ukraine, and met with Putin several times.
Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet in person to discuss the peace terms in the Ukraine war on August 15 in Alaska. This will be the the first time they meet in person since the U.S. president began his second term in January.
Published Aug. 10, 2025, 5:37 p.m. ET
Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Donetsk are territories in the southeast of Ukraine.
Since the war broke out, Russia has been keen on taking control over four territories it has deemed oblasts: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. That’s in addition to its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
But Witkoff later made a different claim to Europeans last Thursday that Putin offered to freeze and withdraw from the front line, according to the report.
By last Friday, Witkoff clarified to his counterparts that what Putin actually offered was for Ukraine to pull out of Donetsk in exchange for a cease-fire.
Several European officials are speculating that Witkoff also may have misunderstood or even talked past Putin on other key details of what was actually proposed.
Some believe that Putin called for a “peaceful withdrawal” from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine and that Witkoff misunderstood that to mean pulling Russian troops out of there, German outlet BILD reported.
However, they believe that Putin actually meant for Ukrainian forces to be withdrawn from those two territories that Russia has attempted to annex during the war.
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然而，他们认为，普京的真正意思是让乌克兰军队撤出俄罗斯在战争期间试图吞并的这两个地区。
Trump’s envoy ‘misunderstood’ Putin’s territorial demands as concessions, media report
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, “misunderstood” Russian leader Vladimir Putin, German news outlet BILD reported.
Witkoff’s Kremlin talks ‘constructive’ as US sanctions deadline looms
Politics
According to the outlet’s sources, Witkoff’s ceasefire proposal delivered to Putin in recent discussions entailed freezing the conflict along the current lines of control. In return, the Kremlin would see a broad lifting of sanctions and an offer of new economic agreements.
This offer does not satisfy the Russians, however, who still insist on full control of the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions and southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Bild reported.
Russia currently occupies practically all of the Luhansk region and most of the Donetsk region, where its forces have been making creeping advances since the start of the war. These are also the only regions whose capitals are under Russian control, after Ukraine successfully liberated the city of Kherson back in November 2022.
In spite of that, Russia claims ownership of the entirety of the regions’ territories based on “referendums” it carried out in areas under its control in late September 2022.
What is more, Witkoff appears to have misinterpreted some statements made by Putin as concessions. One example cited by BILD was the Russian leader’s demand for a “peaceful withdrawal” of Ukrainian forces from Russian-claimed territory. Witkoff reportedly understood this as an offer of a “peaceful withdrawal” of Russian forces.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly said Ukraine would never recognize Russia’s sovereignty over its conquered regions and rejected Moscow’s other demands, such as the pledge to abandon Kyiv’s ambition to join NATO.
“Witkoff doesn’t know what he's talking about,” BILD quoted one Ukrainian official as saying, an assessment reportedly shared by representatives of the German government.
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UPDATE: US set to go ahead with Russia sanctions though Trump hails ‘great progress’ in peace talks
Politics
In a recent conference call between Witkoff, State Secretary Marco Rubio, and Vice President JD Vance and European representatives, the special envoy was clearly out of his depth, the outlet wrote.
BILD reports that the Europeans found the envoy’s statement about his conversation with Putin “confusing,” and Witkoff seemed “overwhelmed and incompetent” when discussing territorial issues.
Witkoff, a real estate billionaire, had no diplomatic experience before being appointed by Trump to serve as his special envoy for the Middle East, but was subsequently tasked with seeking a ceasefire in Ukraine, and met with Putin several times.
Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet in person to discuss the peace terms in the Ukraine war on August 15 in Alaska. This will be the the first time they meet in person since the U.S. president began his second term in January.
Trump’s envoy misinterpreted Putin’s demands as concessions: media
Witkoff was apparently confused as to which country’s forces should withdraw.
tvpworld.com
Trump’s envoy misinterpreted Putin’s demands as concessions: media
Witkoff was apparently confused as to which country’s forces should withdraw.
tvpworld.com
Questions swirl about whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff misunderstood Putin’s offer on Ukraine
By Ryan KingPublished Aug. 10, 2025, 5:37 p.m. ET
Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Donetsk are territories in the southeast of Ukraine.
Since the war broke out, Russia has been keen on taking control over four territories it has deemed oblasts: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. That’s in addition to its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
But Witkoff later made a different claim to Europeans last Thursday that Putin offered to freeze and withdraw from the front line, according to the report.
By last Friday, Witkoff clarified to his counterparts that what Putin actually offered was for Ukraine to pull out of Donetsk in exchange for a cease-fire.
Several European officials are speculating that Witkoff also may have misunderstood or even talked past Putin on other key details of what was actually proposed.
Some believe that Putin called for a “peaceful withdrawal” from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine and that Witkoff misunderstood that to mean pulling Russian troops out of there, German outlet BILD reported.
However, they believe that Putin actually meant for Ukrainian forces to be withdrawn from those two territories that Russia has attempted to annex during the war.
Questions swirl about whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff misunderstood Putin’s offer on Ukraine
Questions are mounting over whether special envoy Steve Witkoff misinterpreted Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s conditions for bringing about an end to his country’s bloody war on Ukr…
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