Overview

• Summit begins at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with a scheduled one-on-one meeting, followed by delegation talks and a joint press conference.
• Ukraine’s president was not invited to the summit and has rejected negotiations that exclude Kyiv or force territorial concessions.
• White House frames the summit as a fact-finding listening exercise to assess Putin’s stance on a ceasefire and broader settlement.
• Trump warned there is a roughly 25% chance the talks could fail and said that any final agreement would require a subsequent meeting including Zelenskyy.
• European leaders have urged Trump to defend Ukraine’s security interests and demanded that Kyiv’s consent be central to any deal.