Trump said the two leaders will meet next Friday. It remains unclear whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be involved with the high-stakes summit.

Donald Trump announced he would meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week, just hours after he said a peace deal in Ukraine might involve “some swapping of territories”. The US president wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday that his “highly anticipated meeting” with the Russian leader would take place in Alaska on August 15.

President Donald Trump has set Friday as a deadline for Russia's Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine or face secondary sanctions.