The relative discretion in the hours followed by the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Friday August 15 in Anchorage (Alaska), slice with the usual media appetite of the republican administration. Apart from an interview given by the American president to the Fox News channel-during which the substance of the discussions was not approached-it was not until forty-eight hours for the main officials to begin to give, on Sunday, August 17, their version of the negotiations in progress. A version whose European diplomats had already largely filtered the details.
A few hours before the meeting between the American president, Volodymyr Zelensky and the main European leaders, there was an urgency to thwart the story that settled over the weekend: that of a complete reversal of Donald Trump by Vladimir Putin.
The American president himself fed this scenario, through several messages posted on his Truth Social network. In the first, sent upon his return to Washington on Saturday at dawn, he claims to be looking for now “A peace agreement, which would end war, not a simple ceasefire agreement, which often does not hold up”. Either precisely the position of Vladimir Putin, who refuses a stopping of the fighting prior to discussions and continues to order offensives on Ukraine.
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