WASHINGTON — President Trump’s Friday meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may be the most-watched Washington-Moscow summit in decades — but don’t expect any major decisions to be made as the US president seeks a “more firm understanding” of how to end Moscow’s war on Ukraine, sources and experts tell The Post. Among the demands reportedly pushed by Putin — almost entirely unchanged from the start of the war nearly three-and-a-half years ago — is the formal recognition by the US and Ukraine of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as Russian territory, despite Moscow being unable to secure them in 11 years of trying. ”Only one party that’s involved in this war is going to be present, and so this is for the president to go in and to get, again, a more firm and better understanding of how we can hopefully bring this war to an end,” Leavitt said.
Author: Caitlin Doornbos, Diana Nerozzi
Published at: 2025-08-12 22:53:38
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