Trump, Putin quotes progress but does not offer any details
The first summit between two presidents from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Trump greets Putin on a red carpet on an American air base on Alaska
Zelenskiy that is not invited says Ukraine “counts on America”
Steve Holland, Andrew Osborn and Darya Korsunskaya
Washington/Moscow – – The highly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not bring any agreement to resolve or suspend the Moscow War in Ukraine, although both leaders described interviews as productive than set out.
During a short performance before the media nearly three -hour meeting at Alaska, both leaders said they had made progress on unspecified questions. However, they did not give up any details and did not apply any questions, and normally Loquicious Trump ignored the reporters’ questions.
“We made some progress,” Trump said, stood in front of the backdrop that read: “persecution of peace.”
“There is no agreement until there is an agreement,” he added.
The interviews seem to have no meaningful steps towards a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, the deadliest conflict in Europe in 80 years, which was Trump’s goal before the summit.
But he simply sat down in the face of the American president who represented a victory for Putin, who was scared by the Western leaders from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
After the Trump Summit, Fox News’ Sean Hannity said that he would buy Russian oil to buy Russian oil after making progress with Putin. He did not mention India, another main buyer of Russian oil, which was slapped with a total of 50% tariff on American imports, which includes 25% fine for imports from Russia.
“Because of what happened today, I think I don’t have to think about it now,” Trump said about Chinese tariffs. “Maybe I’ll have to think about it in two weeks or three weeks or something, but now we don’t have to think about it.”
Trump also threatened sanctions against Moscow, but he has not yet watched, even after Putin ignored the Trump-unloaded term ceasefire at the beginning of this month.
In an interview with Fox News Trump, he also suggested that a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenka, who could also participate. He did not give any more details about who organizes an appointment or when it could be.
Putin did not mention the meeting with Zelenskiy when he talked to reporters earlier. He said he expected that Ukraine and its European allies would constructively accept the results of the US-Rusk negotiations and do not try to “disrupt the progress”.
He also repeated the long -term attitude of Moscow that what Russia claims to be the “cause of roots” of the conflict must be removed to achieve a long -term measure, a sign that it remains resistant to a ceasefire.
Kyiv did not have an immediate reaction to the summit, the first meeting between Putin and the US President since the beginning of the war.
Trump signaled that he discussed potential soil swaps and security guarantees for Ukraine with Putin and said Hannita: “I think these are the points we have negotiated, and these are the points we agreed to a large extent.”
“I think we are quite close to the agreement,” he said, adding, “Ukraine must agree with it. Maybe they will say no.”
When Hannity asked what Zelenskiy would advise, Trump said, “I have to agree.”
“Look, Russia is a very great strength and they are not,” Trump added. According to analysts, the war killed or injured more than a million people from both sides, including thousands of mostly Ukrainian civilians.
Zeletskiy excluded formally the transfer of Moscow of any territory and is also looking for a security guarantee supported by the United States. Trump said he would call Zelenka and NATO leaders to update them on Alaskan interviews.
Trump was to come back to Washington early on Saturday morning.
When both leaders talked, the war was raging, with most of the Eastern Ukrainian regions as part of the raid warning. Governors of the Russian regions Rostov and Bryansk said some of their territories were under the attacks of the Ukrainian drones.
Russian air defense systems captured and destroyed 29 Ukrainian drones overnight over various Russian regions, of which 10 shot down over the Rostov region, RIA reported on Saturday and quoted the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The anti -primitical end of the carefully monitored summit was in sharp contrast to the pomp and the circumstances she started with. When Putin arrived at the Air Force base in Alaska, a red carpet waited for him to warmly greeted the Russian president when the US military plane flew over his head.
Putin is sought by the International Criminal Court, accused of war crime of deportation of hundreds of children from Ukraine. Russia denies the accusation and the Kremlin rejected the order of ICC as invalid. Russia and the United States are not members of the court.
Zeletskiy, who was not invited to Alaska, and his European allies feared that Trump could sell Ukraine essentially by freezing conflict and recognition – albeit informally – Russian control over one fifth of Ukraine.
Trump tried to alleviate these fears on Friday and said that he would let Ukraine decide on any possible territorial concessions.
Asked what would happen to the meeting, he told reporters: “I want to see a ceasefire quickly … I won’t be happy if it’s not today … I want the killing to stop.”
The meeting was also included in the US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio; Trump’s special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff; Russian foreign policy auxiliary Yury Ushakov; and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Trump, who said during his presidential campaign that he would end the war of Ukraine within 24 hours on Thursday, admitted that he proved to be a harder task than he expected. He said that if Friday’s interviews went well, he quickly organized a second, three -way summit with Zelenskiya, would be more important than his meeting with Putin.
Trump ended his notes on Friday by saying to Putin, “I would like to thank you very much and we will talk to you soon and will probably see you very soon.”
“Next time in Moscow,” Putin replied in English. Trump said he could “get a little bit of it”, but to “see how it was going on”.
Zeletskiy said before the fall summit that the meeting should open the way for “fair peace” and three -way interviews that included him, but added that Russia continues to waging war.
“It’s time to end the war and Russia must take the necessary steps. We count on America,” Zelenky wrote on a telegram.
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