• President Donald Trump says he will not negotiate for Ukraine at his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin.
  • Trump claims Putin would have taken “all of Ukraine” if he were not in office.
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not attend but may join a future meeting.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (TDR) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he would not be negotiating on behalf of Ukraine during his high-stakes summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, while asserting that the Kremlin leader’s ambitions would have already consumed all of Ukraine if not for his presence in the Oval Office.

“Vladimir Putin wanted to take all of Ukraine. If I wasn’t president, he would right now be taking all of Ukraine,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Alaska. “But he’s not going to do it.”

When asked about potential territorial swaps, Trump said the decision rested with Kyiv. “They’ll be discussed, but I’ve got to let Ukraine make that decision,” he said. “I’m not here to negotiate for Ukraine. I’m here to get them at a table.”

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The comments come as Russia intensifies strikes across Ukraine in the hours before the summit — attacks Kyiv has condemned as part of a coercive negotiation strategy.

“I think they’re trying to negotiate. He’s trying to set a stage. In his mind, that helps him make a better deal. It actually hurts him,” Trump said of Putin. “But in his mind, that helps him make a better deal.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not be present at the U.S.-Russia talks but may join a subsequent three-way meeting that Trump has floated. The president placed the odds of the Alaska discussions failing at “25 percent,” adding that his main objective was to “set the table for the next meeting.”

The Alaska meeting marks one of Trump’s most significant foreign policy tests in his second term, with both allies and critics watching for signs of whether his personal diplomacy can break the entrenched Ukraine conflict stalemate.

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