Donald Trump has announced his "highly anticipated" meeting with Vladimir Putin will take place next Friday in the US state of Alaska.

The two presidents are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine with the talks potentially leading to a breakthrough in Mr Trump's effort to end the conflict.

However there's no guarantee it would stop the fighting since Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart on their conditions for peace.

Earlier, the US president told reporters "we're getting very close to a deal" that would end the war.

Mr Trump added there will be "some swapping of territories to the betterment of both sides".

The meeting between the two leaders will be the first US-Russia summit since 2021, when former US President Joe Biden met with Mr Putin in Geneva, Switzerland.

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