Trump-Putin meeting summary: four key moments from press conference
Trump has almost-daily exchanges with journalists in the full glare of the cameras. Putin has been known to speak to the media for more than four and a half hours while hosting his annual marathon phone-ins.
But in Alaska, the two leaders refused to accept questions from journalists and they made a prompt exit after only 12 minutes. Putin stuck closely to his scripted comments while Trump made vague remarks about 'extremely productive talks'.
Putin repeated his insistence that the war in Ukraine would only end when the 'root causes' of the conflict were addressed.
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