Trump, Putin end short summit without ceasefire deal in Ukraine

Warm invited for Russia’s Putin astatine gathering with US President Donald Trump successful Alaska, but nary woody connected ending Ukraine war.

US President Donald Trump’s gathering with Russia’s Vladimir Putin ended successful Alaska without a woody connected halting Moscow’s warfare connected Ukraine, but it did springiness the Russian president a “diplomatic win” aft years of being shunned by the West, observers said.

The Russian president was greeted with a reddish carpet and a lukewarm handshake from President Trump connected accomplishment astatine a US airbase successful Anchorage, Alaska, connected Friday arsenic some leaders arrived for talks aimed astatine ending the warfare successful Ukraine.

It marked President Putin’s archetypal clip stepping connected Western ungraded since helium ordered the full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022 and was notable successful its welcoming ambiance compared with the frosty reception a hostile Trump laid connected for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy astatine the White House successful February.

Taking to a signifier to present remarks aft they spoke down closed doors for little than 3 hours, the 2 leaders said they had made advancement connected unspecified issues, offering nary details and taking nary questions from a phalanx of assembled planetary reporters and tv cameras.

A visibly upbeat Putin was the archetypal to speak, telling however helium had greeted Trump connected his accomplishment successful Anchorage with the lines: “Good afternoon, beloved neighbour”, owing to the geographic closeness of Alaska to Russia.

“We are adjacent neighbours, and it’s a fact,” Putin said.

Putin said his gathering with Trump was “long overdue” and that helium “hoped the statement that we’ve reached unneurotic volition assistance america bring adjacent that extremity and volition pave the way towards bid successful Ukraine “.

“We expect that Kyiv and European capitals volition comprehend that constructively and that they won’t propulsion a wrench successful the works,” Putin said. “They volition not marque immoderate attempts to usage immoderate backroom dealings to behaviour provocations to torpedo the nascent progress,” helium said.

Trump past thanked Putin for his “very profound” statement, adding that the 2 had a “very productive gathering “.

“There were many, galore points that we agreed on. Most of them, I would say. A mates of large ones that we haven’t rather got there, but we’ve made immoderate headway,” Trump said.

“So determination is nary woody until determination is simply a deal,” Trump said, adding that helium volition present telephone up NATO arsenic good arsenic President Zelenskyy and others to little them connected the meeting.

“It’s yet up to them,” the president said.

“Many points were agreed to,” helium continued, without providing immoderate details.

“There are conscionable a precise fewer that are left; immoderate are not that significant, 1 is astir apt the astir significant,” Trump said without elaborating.

“But we person a precise bully accidental of getting there. We didn’t get there, but we person a precise bully accidental of getting there.”

There was nary contiguous absorption from Kyiv to the result of the summit, described arsenic “anticlimactic”.

Ukraine’s absorption lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko said connected the Telegram messaging app aft the talks: “It seems Putin has bought himself much time. No ceasefire oregon de-escalation has been agreed upon.”

Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett, reporting from Anchorage, Alaska, said President Trump is apt to travel successful for disapproval for a acme that “all became overmuch ado astir nothing”.

“The lone achievements that were really made was that the Russian president has been capable to proceed his war, which we cognize is present a warfare of attrition and which each time favours the Russian side,” Halkett said.

“He has bought time,” she said.

Also reporting from the summit, Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor, James Bays, said Ukraine’s European allies – who had been pushing for factual steps to travel retired of the meeting, specified arsenic a ceasefire – volition apt spot the gathering arsenic “a large triumph for President Putin”.

“And it does beg each sorts of questions astir wherever the diplomacy connected Ukraine goes,” Bays said.

Trump ended his remarks astatine the quality league connected Friday by telling Putin, “I’d similar to convey you precise much, and we’ll talk to you precise soon and astir apt spot you again precise soon.”

To which Putin rapidly chipped back: “Next time, successful Moscow.”

Trump past responded, saying that helium mightiness “get a small vigor connected that one” but that helium could “possibly spot it happening”.