The U.S. Treasury Department issues waiver for the "Trump-Putin Meeting," allowing Russia to participate despite existing sanctions.

On August 13th local time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued General License No. 125, authorizing Russian President Putin and his delegation to meet with the U.S. side in Alaska under current sanctions. The license stipulates that "necessary" transactions related to the meeting between the U.S. and Russian governments in Alaska can be exempt from sanctions until 00:01 on August 20, 2025, but does not include unfreezing frozen Russian assets or other transactions prohibited under sanctions.