Washington (AP) – The long-awaited summit It began with a warm welcome and flyover between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a US military base in Alaska, but ended on Friday. Russia-Ukraine War.
After about two and a half hours of lecture Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Two men at Anchorage Appeared in front of the reporter For what was being billed as a joint press conference – but they didn’t ask questions.
“We had a very productive meeting and a lot of points agreed. There are only a few left,” Trump said. “We didn’t get there, but the chances of getting there are very good.”
Putin was welcomed by the US after being shunned by his western allies for ordering an invasion of Ukraine since early 2022, and thanked Trump for hosting the conference, and suggested with a laugh that the two could be in Moscow.
Here are some important points from the summit:
A warm welcome highlighting friendly Trump Putin relationship
Putin welcomed the red carpet and rode Trump’s presidential limousine from the tarmac to the summit venue. So the pair was joined by two top aides: Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, President Trump Steve Witkov and Putin’s Foreign Minister Yuri Ushakov.
First spoke after the meeting ended, Putin praised the historical ties between the US, Russia and the former Soviet Union, and recalled the joint missions carried out by the two countries during World War II.
He said the US and Russia share values. This is the standard topic for Russian officials when trying to plead Trump and his entourage. Putin also said he frequently said that if Trump had won the 2020 election, the Ukrainian war would not have happened.
“I think so,” the Russian leader said, the comments please Trump.
But there is no indication that Moscow was acting differently than Ukraine, nor is it a way to prove that Democrat Joe Biden was not elected.
Trump promotes progress but admits there was no deal
Trump attended a meeting that he hoped Putin would agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine. They hoped to reach at least a commitment from Russia to reach negotiations from Russia.
Instead, Trump admitted that “we haven’t got there” and said he will discuss the next step with Ukrainian Voldymir Zelenki and NATO leaders.
Trump said he and Putin have made great strides towards their goal of ending the conflict, but they had to admit that they were unable to fill a significant gap without giving details on what it would entail.
“I think we had a very productive meeting,” Trump said. “We haven’t got there, but we’ve moved forward. So we’re not going to trade until there’s a deal.”
In subsequent conversations with Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel, Trump once again offered no details about his discussion with Putin.
As diplomatic progress creeps up, time is on Putin’s side
In the diplomatic moves to end the war, time appears to be on Putin’s side. It gave the Russian army a foot, and they slowly crushed the defences of eastern Ukraine using their larger numbers 3 and a half years In conflict.
Putin received a comfortable reception from the free world leaders in the US soil and left without providing details of what they discussed a few hours later, without providing details about whether the ceasefire is close to reality or what the next step will be.
Putin praised Trump in a “friendly” talks. Trump praised the murder of Ukrainian civilians in the Moscow attacks, and for saying “nothing about understanding that Russia has its own national interests.”
Putin said Moscow and Washington should “turn the page.”
Putin, who debuted in the US for the first time in a decade, was celebrated as a sign that Moscow is no longer a pariah on the global stage. In a social media post, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakkarova told followers that the Western media is in danger of “losing their hearts.”
“For three years they talked about Russia’s isolation. Today they saw a red carpet unfolding to greet the Russian president of the United States,” she said.
There were no details or questions
Both men said the consultation was “productive”, but the lack of solid results has been apparent.
The press conference became a fairly standard diplomatic comment for less than 15 minutes and did not show that concrete results were achieved, but it deviated little from previous comments on the war in Ukraine.
Trump made his second term feature for asking questions from reporters in front of world leaders, but in the clearest sign of his disappointment, the president suddenly cut off his plan to ask questions.
Trump was in the summit saying there was a 25% chance that the summit would fail, and that was a 25% chance that it was meant to “meet with emotion,” but he also came up with the idea that if things went well, he would take Zelenskyy to Alaska for a subsequent three-way meeting. It is unknown what will come next.
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Associated Press authors Katie Marie Davies, Dasha Litvinova and Michelle L. Price contributed to this report.
