Trump hails meeting with Putin as 'productive' after talks over Ukraine fail to reach a breakthrough

The high-stakes acme connected Friday betwixt U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin did not effect successful a breakthrough, adjacent arsenic Trump described the acme arsenic "productive," portion Putin projected different gathering successful Moscow.

The White House had played down the talks — initially seen an effort to unafraid a ceasefire betwixt Russia and Ukraine — with spokesperson Karoline Leavitt calling the summit, "a listening workout for the president."

Following the Friday gathering Trump said, "There's nary woody until there's a deal."

Ukraine was not portion of the discussions, stoking concerns that a imaginable woody could person compromised the country's sovereignty. "Ukraine is acceptable to enactment arsenic productively arsenic imaginable to bring the warfare to an end, and we number connected a beardown presumption from America … A gathering of leaders is needed – astatine the precise least, Ukraine, America, and the Russian side," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X anterior to the summit.

This was Putin's archetypal sojourn to the U.S. successful astir a decade, with the Russian president stressing that it was a "hard time" for bilateral relations. The gathering was held successful Alaska, which was erstwhile Russian territory.

"There were many, galore points that we agreed connected … I would accidental a mates of large ones that we haven't rather got there, but we've made immoderate headway," Trump said astatine a associated property league with Putin. The leaders did not instrumentality immoderate questions from the press.

Putin called the talks arsenic a "starting point," some for the solution of the struggle with Kiev arsenic good arsenic for improving relations with Washington, which helium said had "fallen to the lowest constituent since the Cold War." 

Trump called Putin's observations "profound," and added that helium would speech to NATO and Zelenskyy to update them astir the discussions with Russia. "It's yet up to them," helium said.

"Many points were agreed to. There are conscionable a precise fewer that are left. Some are not that significant. One is astir apt the astir significant, but we person a precise bully accidental of getting there," Trump said, without elaborating.

Since Russia's penetration of Ukraine successful 2022, aggregate rounds of bid negotiations person taken place, but determination has not been a breakthrough connected ending hostilities.

Russian media outlets were upbeat Friday up of Putin's gathering with Trump, with the acme being seen arsenic a triumph for Moscow. Commentary crossed Russian authorities quality sites characterized the talks arsenic a affirmative for Russia. The temper successful Ukraine was somber amid apprehensions of the state losing immoderate territory arsenic portion of a Trump-brokered deal.