White House, Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska, scheduled for 9:00 p.m.

The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, will take place today at 11:00 a.m. local time (9:00 p.m. GMT) , the White House announced in a press release, as reported by Reuters on its website.

Trump will depart the White House at 6:45 a.m. Friday (12:45 p.m. EDT) and leave Anchorage at 5:45 p.m. the same day (Alaska time, 3:00 a.m. EDT) . He is scheduled to return to the White House early Saturday morning. The Kremlin said yesterday that the meeting would begin at 11:30 a.m. local time (9:30 p.m. EDT).

The entire world will be watching Anchorage today, hoping that the Trump-Putin summit will offer a chance for peace in Ukraine . "If Alaska goes well, then a trilateral meeting with Zelensky will be necessary," said the tycoon, who gave the summit a 75% chance of success. But Kiev is dampening expectations: "Negotiations can only be productive after a ceasefire is reached," wrote Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha in X on the eve of the summit. On the negotiating table are the offer of rare earths to Moscow and defense guarantees to Kiev, but outside of NATO. And the tsar breaks his silence: "Donald is sincere, he wants an end to the war." The Russian leader is aiming for rapprochement with the US. "Agreements on nuclear power are also needed for world security." The meeting between Trump and Putin will begin at 11:00 a.m. local time (9:00 p.m. Italian time) with a bilateral meeting and will conclude with a press conference between the two leaders. Meanwhile, Zelensky was received in London by Starmer.