The great absent of the meeting was the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski.
Miami, United States. -The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, appeared this afternoon-night at a press conference in Anchorage (Alaska) after a meeting of about three hours on the war in Ukraine.
According to reports from the international press, both agreed that the conversations were productive, although they did not announce an agreement. “We are not there yet, but we have advanced much,” Trump said, cited by The country.
Putin said the negotiations were “quite good” and expressed his willingness to “seek a solution” to the conflict.
The US president reiterated that his priority objective is to reach a high fire. “I don’t know if it’s going to be today, but I’m not going to be happy if it’s not today,” he said, and said that he will communicate “soon” with NATO to inform the details of the meeting. The Republican president has pointed out this week to European leaders who does not intend to discuss “any possible territorial division”, although days before he suggested that there could be “some exchange of territories” between Russia and Ukraine.
Putin, meanwhile, stressed the cordial tone of the encounter and its relationship with Trump. “Russia and the United States are neighbors” and share “a wide common cultural heritage,” he said. He also pointed out that he hopes that “the agreement” to which they had reached “together” would help them approach that goal and lay “the foundations of a peace in Ukraine”, without detailing the terms. “I thank Trump for joint work,” he added.
The event was attended, on the American side, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubioand the special envoy Steve Witkoff; On the Russian side, the Putin team, whose advisor Kirill Dmitriev told his country’s television that the negotiations were “quite well”, without offering details.
According to The countryTrump indicated that, if the summit with Putin passed positively, he would “almost immediately” a meeting three with the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski. The meeting in Anchorage concluded earlier than expected and, according to the same medium, it was not clear if a second session would be held that had been initially announced.
In your coverage, The country He adds that this was the seventh meeting between Trump and Putin and the first of an American president with the Kremlin leader since the beginning of the large -scale invasion of Ukraine. For the Russian president, he maintains the medium, the summit involves recognition in the global stage and “proves the weakness” of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in 2023.
During the arrival of Putin to Alaska, the Russian leader was received with a red carpet, in a protocol gesture that preceded the exchange of almost three hours at the Anchorage military base.
