Summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska to negotiate on the war in Ukraine

Donald Trump spoke of a “very productive” meeting. Similarly, Vladimir Putin of a “constructive” interview, but neither has delivered the slightest detail on a possible peaceful settlement in Ukraine on Friday.

The American president assured that there was “very little” of points to settle to find a way out of war. For example, triggered more than three years ago by the Russian invasion.

“We are not there, but we have made progress. Meanwhile, There is no agreement until there is an agreement, “he warned.

Before the meeting. Similarly, the 79-year-old billionaire had set himself the ambition to organize a tripartite summit very quickly with the Russian head of state and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, and to win a cease-fire. For example, He did not mention anything alongside Vladimir Putin.

The latter. Similarly, during statements to the press in the friendly tone on the part of the summit between donald trump vladimir two leaders, said hoped that “the agreement” found in Alaska will bring “peace” to Ukraine.

The two men had promised a press conference after some three hours of discussion at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base. but they only got their hands on after having finished their speeches and left without answering journalists who stand up with questions.

Donald Trump said he would call on the leaders of NATO countries. as well as Volodymyr Zelensky, saying about the Ukrainians: “In the last resort, it depends on them”.

He also felt that he could review “very soon” the Russian president. to which Vladimir Putin reacted by launching, in English, “next time in Moscow”, in a light tone.

“I imagine it could happen,” said the American president, amused.

The two leaders spoke in front of a blue background bearing the inscription “Pursuing Peace” (” Work for peace »).

Trump briefly applauds Putin – Summit between donald trump vladimir

This summit with considerable issues had opened summit between donald trump vladimir on a warm. carefully choreographed welcome for Vladimir Putin, who signs a spectacular return to the international scene, while the deadliest conflict in Europe since the Second World War continues in 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 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 summit between donald trump vladimir of this meeting. of which Ukraine and Europeans feared above all that it does not allow Vladimir Putin to manipulate his American counterpart.

“Continue to kill”

The first concerned but big of this meeting. Volodymyr Zelensky had declared “counting” on Donald Trump to end the conflict.

The Russian soldiers “continue to kill the day of 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.

The Ukrainian President. European leaders will therefore 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, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.

“Givenant”

Before the meeting in Alaska, the positions of the two belligerents remained irreconcilable.

Russia claims that Ukraine gives it four partially occupied summit between donald trump vladimir regions (Donetsk. Lugansk, Zaporijjia and 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 has returned back to back the two belligerents, speaks for some time “giving-back” 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 negotiations, a haggle, to arrive at 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” summit between donald trump vladimir which he would like to reconstruct.

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