Putin and Trump shake hands ahead of Alaska summit
US President Donald Trump welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin with a handshake in front of a high -betting summit in Alaska, which has been able to determine whether a ceasefire could be reached in the most deadly war in Europe since the Second World War.
Trump laid his plane, Air Force One and waited Putin on the asphalt. Two of them changed greetings while smiling.
The US F-22 aircraft was placed on both sides of the red carpet.
Approximately half a million people watched Putin’s plane landed in Flight24.
The meeting continues now.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European allies, who are not invited to talks, are afraid that Trump can essentially sell Ukraine by freezing Ukraine, and only by officially recognizing the control of Russia on one fifth of Ukraine.
Previously, Trump tried to get these concerns, saying he would allow Ukraine to decide on possible regional swaps.
“I’m not here to negotiate for Ukraine, I’m here to get them on a table,” he said.
When asked what to make the meeting successful, he said to the journalists: orum I want to see the ceasefire rapidly… If not today, I will not be happy… I want to kill. ”
Both the US and Russian presidents have been gaining from the first face to face since Trump returned to the White House, as they will meet at a Cold War Period Air Force Base in the largest city of Alaska.
White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Trump will attend his meeting with Putin by Russian special ambassador Steve Witkoff.
Putin is expected to be senior assistants.
Trump, who threw the war as a “blood bath”, presses the Nobel Peace Prize in the 3.5 -year -old war as a global peaceful submitting for a ceasefire to support identity information.
For Putin, the summit is already a big win, because the West can use it to say that years of attempts to isolate Russia have been solved and that Moscow has taken back the rightful place in the upper picture of international diplomacy.
Russia’s RIA News Agency said that Russian special ambassador Kirill Dmitriev described the pre -privileged mood as a “warrior ve and the two leaders would discuss not only Ukraine, but the full spectrum of bilateral relations.
Trump said that it would end Russia’s war in Ukraine in 24 hours, on Thursday, proved that it was a harder hazelnut than he thought.
If the talks go well, Zelenskiy said that the second three -way summit would be more important than his encounter with Putin.
Zelenskiy said Russia continued to attack Ukraine before a summit.
“They kill people on the day of negotiations. And that says a lot, Z Zelenskiy said.
Previously, Ukrainian regional officials said Russia started a ballistic missile in the Dnipropetrovsk region in Eastern Ukraine, killed a person and injured at least one person.
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A source introduced to the idea of the Kremlin, given that Putin understands Russia’s economic fragility and the costs of continuing the war, he said that Moscow may be ready to compromise in Ukraine.
Russia, which shows signs of coercion in the war economy, is vulnerable to the US sanctions.
The Ukrainians who spoke with Reuters in the center of Kyiv on Friday were not optimistic about the Alaska summit.
“There will be nothing good there, because war will not end. We will not give anything to the regions,” he said.
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