(Left) U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, on June 15, 2025. (Right) Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 12, 2024. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised the Trump administration’s “energetic and sincere” efforts to end the war in Ukraine and suggested that a nuclear arms control agreement could emerge from broader peace talks.
Putin made the remarks during an Aug. 14 meeting with senior Russian officials to brief them on negotiations with Washington ahead of his Aug. 15 summit with President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska.
