U.S. President Donald Trump said he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 in Alaska.

Trump announced the meeting in a post on social media and said more details would follow.

The announcement came after Trump said Friday that he would meet "very shortly" with Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, a potential major milestone after expressing weeks of frustration that more was not being done to quell the fighting.

Speaking to reporters at the White House earlier in the day, he also suggested that his meeting with the Russian leader could come before any sit-down discussion involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"We're going to have a meeting with Russia, start off with Russia," Trump said.

If it happens, the meeting would be the first U.S.-Russia s

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