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In anticipation of his long -awaited conversations with President Donald Trump in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that he could be ready to reach a nuclear deal with the US
On Thursday, Putin praised the US for making “genuine efforts” to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, which has been raging for more than three years. He said on TV that the US “in my opinion made fairly energetic and genuine efforts to stop hostilities, to stop the crisis and to reach similarities that are important for all parties involved in this conflict”, “” According to Reuters.
The Russian leader reportedly also mentioned possible future “similarities in the field of control over strategic attacking weapons.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that the US and Russia could reach a nuclear deal just before his Alaska top with President Donald Trump. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP; AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Russia and the US hold on to the world’s largest nuclear weapons arsals and have a treaty that limits the number of weapons that they may have, which ends in February, adding more pressure to the upcoming conversations. The new strategic arms reduction (Start) includes strategic nuclear weapons and dops the number of nuclear heads used at 1,550 on each side, according to Reuters.
In recent days there has been a nuclear tension between the two countries, because Trump ordered two nuclear submarines to get closer to Russia after the former president of the country had made ‘very provocative statements’. The Kremlin trivialized the movement, but warned all parties to be “very, very careful” about nuclear rhetoric, according to Reuters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy (Sputnik / Alexei Danichv / Pool via Reuters / Leah Millis / Alina Smutko)
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The high-stakes meeting of Friday in Anchorage will be the first US-Russian top since June 2021, only eight months before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. It marks a crucial moment for Trump, who has insisted on an end to the war.
Trump has threatened “Very serious consequences”If Putin does not agree with peace with Ukraine, but he has not detailed what that could mean.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy, whose relationship with Trump has been rocky, doubts about the willingness of Russia to end the war. On Wednesday he wrote on X that he “did not see a sign that the Russians are preparing to end the war.”
President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy meet during NATO Statish heads and government stop in Denhager, the Netherlands on June 25, 2025. (Zenskiy/Official Telegram -Account/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Zenskyy has worked on strengthening support among world leaders prior to the Trump-Putin top. This week he met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on 10 Downing Street and traveled to Belin to meet the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Starmer and Merz Co chairman of the meeting of Wednesday of the “Coalition of the Willing”-a meeting of Nations that return Ukraine-in addition to French President Emmanuel Macron. Vice president JD Vance and special presidential envoy for Ukraine general Keith Kellogg were also present.
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