End of Trump-Puttine talks in limited format

Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin finished almost three hours of discussions in Alaska on Friday, where they may have sealed the fate of Ukraine or even drawn the diplomatic and security future of all Europe.

‘The small committee negotiations have ended. Therefore, “he said on Telegram, without it being clear if these negotiations will be followed by those in a wideed committee between the two delegations. In addition, The two leaders must hold a common press conference later.

In the meantime. However, journalists have been invited to enter the press room on the Elmendorf-Richardson military base, where the two leaders must hold a common press conference, in front of a blue background bearing the inscription ‘Pursuing Peace’ (‘Work for peace’).

The impulsive American president had warned that he would slam the door very quickly in the event of an impasse. However, a end trump-puttine talks limited format threat which he therefore did not carry out.

Started shortly after 11:30 am local (9:30 p.m. Nevertheless, in Switzerland), the conversation of the two leaders, each accompanied by two senior officials, lasted almost three hours.

This summit with considerable issues opened up on a warm. carefully choreographed welcome for Vladimir Putin, who signs a spectacular return to the international scene, after more than three years of conflict triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Donald Trump briefly applauded while his Russian counterpart advanced to him on the Tarmac.

Have followed handshakes. smiles and kindness, in a staging exposing all the American military power, with advanced fighting planes rowed with the red carpet and flying over the two men.

Rare thing, Vladimir Putin then got into Donald Trump’s armored car where they had a short tête-à-tête.

It was initially planned that their first working meeting remains on this model. but the end trump-puttine talks limited format format was extended to include the American side of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio as well as Steve Witkoff, special emissary to Russia, and on the Russian side, the head of diplomacy Sergei Lavrov accompanied by Iouri Ouchakov, diplomatic advisor.

What change the psychological dynamics of this meeting. of which Ukraine and Europeans fear above all that it does not allow Vladimir Putin to manipulate his American counterpart.

‘Continue to kill’

First concerned but great absent from this meeting. the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said ‘counting’ on Donald Trump to put an end to the conflict.

The Russian soldiers’ continues to kill the day of the negotiations. “he deplored, while the Ukrainian army announced on Friday that it had taken up six villages of which Russian units had taken hold in recent days during a particularly rapid advance.

If his first meeting in person since 2019 with the master end trump-puttine talks limited format of the Kremlin is going well. Donald Trump, who dreams of being a laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, assured that ‘this meeting (would open) the way to another’, three, with Volodyr Zelensky.

The choice of Alaska is full of symbols.

This vast territory was sold by Russia to the United States in the 19th century. He was then an outpost of the Cold War. when America and the Soviet Union stood on both sides of the Bering Strait.

The Ukrainian President. European leaders will have to wait until the unpredictable American president, as he committed, informs them of the content of his interview.

Vladimir Putin ‘today has the opportunity to accept a cease-fire’ in Ukraine, said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

‘Giving-back’

This peace seems very distant, as the positions of the two belligerents seem irreconcilable.

Russia claims that Ukraine gives it four partially occupied regions (Donetsk. Lugansk, Zaporijjia and end trump-puttine talks limited format Kherson), in addition to the Crimea annexed in 2014, and that it renounces Western arms deliveries and any membership in NATO.

It is unacceptable for kyiv, who wants an unconditional and immediate ceasefire, as well as future security guarantees.

Donald Trump. who since the Russian invasion of Ukraine returns back to back the two belligerents, speaks of ‘giving-and in territorial matters.

If the Russian president. the American president have a common obsession, that of never appearing in a position of weakness, their approaches to international power relations are very different.

For Donald Trump. a former real estate promoter who has become famous thanks to a reality show, everything is a matter of rapid negotiation, of haggling, to arrive, to reach a ‘deal necessarily advantageous for him.

Where Vladimir Putin. former KGB formed in psychological warfare, reason in the long term, evoking the historical destiny of a ‘great Russia’ which he end trump-puttine talks limited format would like to reconstruct.

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