New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- United States President Donald Trump has announced that he would be meeting his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 in a massive breakthrough after weeks of expressing frustration that more was not being done to quell the war in Ukraine. The Trump-Putin meeting comes days after Donald Trump imposed hefty tariffs on India over its energy dealings with Russia, as he seeks to bring the Ukraine war to an end.

The meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was announced by the US President in a post on Truth Social. He said, "The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15...