Kremlin: Negotiations between Putin and Trump will last at least 6 or 7 hours

Moscow.- Negotiations between the presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and of United States, Donald Trump, in Alaska will last for at least 6 or 7 hours, according to the Kremlin. “We start from the premise that there will first be a face-to-face conversation. This will involve the participation of the advisors. Then, there will be negotiations with delegations, possibly in the format of a working lunch. Afterwards, the leaders will take a break and then meet for a joint press conference,” said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov to Russian public television.

In total, he added, “that will last at least six or seven hours,” Peskov added.

After the summit and before leaving for Russia, Putin will lay a wreath at the cemetery where eleven military personnel – nine of them pilots – and two Soviet citizens are buried, who died between 1942 and 1945 while trying to transfer the planes that the United States had supplied them.

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Hours before taking the plane to Alaska, the head of the Kremlin laid flowers at a memorial in the Russian region of Magadan, which pays tribute to the memory of Soviet and American pilots who collaborated during World War II. According to what the Kremlin announced yesterday, Putin and Trump will discuss “complex issues” during their summit, but they will not sign any documents. The meeting between the two, the first since Trump’s return to the White House and the start of the war in Ukraine, will take place at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base, near the capital of Alaska, Anchorage.