What Happened At Alaska Summit: Trump Calls Talks With Putin ‘Fantastic’, ‘Extremely Productive’; Ukraine Details Remain Hidden | World News
Anchorage (Alaska): US President Donald Trump described his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 as “extremely productive” and “great progress .. The two leaders met with the best assistants, including Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and US special ambassador Steve Witkoff and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Foreign Policy for Putin, Yury Ushakov.
Taking a break from tradition, Russian President Putin opened the joint news conference while Trump was looking. Putin admitted that US-Russia relations have suffered in recent years.
“It is known that there is no intelligence between Russia and the United States for four years and this is a long time. This time it was very difficult for bilateral relations. And let’s be open to the lowest point since the Cold War.
Trump described the talks as “some progress” and “great progress ında in a“ fantastic ile meeting with Putin. “We had an extremely productive meeting and many points were accepted,” he said.
“We couldn’t get there, but we have a chance to go there. There’s no agreement until it’s an agreement.”
Trump, NATO, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials are planning to give information about the discussions, he said.
Putin stressed that Ukraine’s security should be ensured. “I agree with the fact that President Trump and Ukraine should be secured and of course we are ready to work on it,” he said.
Orum I hope the agreement we have reached will help us approach this goal and open the way for peace in Ukraine, or he added.
The Russian President also stressed that permanent peace requires to address the main causes of conflict. “The situation in Ukraine is about basic threats for our security,” he said.
“In order to make the settlement permanent and long -term, we believe that we need to eliminate all the primary roots and primary causes of this conflict and that we should restore the balance of security in Europe and the world in general.”
In the tone of the summit, Putin said that the negotiations were “respectful, constructive and mutually respectful ve and thanked Trump for an invitation to Alaska.
He argued that the next meeting could take place in Moscow, Trump’s defining as an interesting one… But I could see that this would happen ”.
Putin called on Ukrainian and European leaders not to intervene in the progress. “We hope that the Kiev and the European capitals will perceive all this in a constructive way and will not create any obstacles, and will not attempt to disrupt the progress through provocations and behind -the -stage intrigues,” he said.
Following the summit, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton said, “Trump did not lose, but Putin clearly won… Putin has gone a long way to rebuild the relationship that I believe to have always a key target. Trump achieved very little.”
Ukrainian Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko, “Putin seems to have earned more time,” he added, stressed that the cease -fire or competition is not decided.
Trump’s Alaska Summit with Putin made a high -profile effort to advance diplomacy to emphasize progress and constructive participation, but the basic details of any agreement continued closely.
