How long will the meeting between Trump and Putin last?

Negotiations between the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, may take a total of "at least six to seven hours."

As reported by RBC, this was announced by the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov.

According to him, first Putin and Trump will talk tête-à-tête, and then with the participation of assistants. "Then there will be negotiations with delegations, possibly in the format of a working lunch," the press secretary said.

After that, "the leaders will part ways for some time" and then participate in a joint press conference, Peskov clarified.

The Kremlin hopes that the summit will end "productively," he added.

According to Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence analyst and former weapons of mass destruction inspector for the UN Special Commission on Iraq, the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump will be short, as the terms of a possible ceasefire in Ukraine have already been agreed upon.

"I think the meeting will be very short because everything has already been agreed upon. Vladimir Putin has outlined the conditions under which a ceasefire is possible," he shared in a conversation with TASS.

As Ritter reminded, Trump himself wants to achieve a ceasefire: "A comprehensive peace settlement will come later - demilitarization, denazification, and so on. Donald Trump is not focused on that right now. His goal is specifically a ceasefire. And I think they will come to an agreement."

The meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, will take place on August 15 at the joint US Air Force and Army base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.