Putin Plays To Trump’s Nobel Hopes Ahead Of Alaska Trip: 'US Efforts To End Conflict Sincere'

Last Updated:August 14, 2025, 18:35 IST

Putin will meet Trump in Alaska on August 15 before the New START treaty expires in 2026.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin react at the end of the joint news conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, in this 2018 file photo. (IMAGE: REUTERS FILE)

Russia President Vladimir Putin said the United States is making “energetic and sincere efforts to end the conflict" in Ukraine, offering “long-term conditions for peace… if we reach agreements on strategic offensive arms control."

His remarks, delivered ahead of his trip to Alaska for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, were captured in a Kremlin-released video and first shared on social media by Financial Times bureau chief Max Seddon. The meeting in Anchorage on August 15 will be the first in-person talks between the two leaders in years and comes as the New START nuclear arms treaty is set to expire in February 2026.

At the start of his second term, US President Donald Trump hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin, ahead of a planned meeting in Alaska for key talks on the Ukraine war. But with his promised “24-hour" peace deal still elusive months later, Trump’s once-warm tone toward Putin has grown noticeably sharper.

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