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'No deal': Takeaways from Trump's Alaska summit with Putin
WASHINGTON – Vladimir Putin caught a ride in the presidential limousine and achieved recognition on the world stage. Donald Trump flew more than 4,000 miles and rolled out the red carpet for the Russian leader in Alaska – and left empty-handed after some three hours of negotiations. A much-hyped summit between Trump and Putin that saw the U.S. president flex his deal-making skills achieved no major breakthrough in peace negotiations over Russia's war against Ukraine. The talks culminated in a vague statement to the media in which Putin spoke of an 'agreement.' Trump was then left in the awkward position of declaring 'no deal' had been reached. A planned press conference? Called off. The two leaders spoke briefly and answered no questions. 'There were many, many points that we agree on,' Trump said without elaborating. 'A couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there,' he added. 'So there's no deal until there's a deal.' More: 'No deal': Live updates from Trump-Putin Alaska summit Trump said he'd be calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO allies on his way home to debrief them on the conversation with his Russian counterpart, who had been isolated by western leaders after invading Ukraine in 2022. As the American president, who'd warned of 'severe consequences' if a ceasefire wasn't reached, waved goodbye to press while boarding Air Force One for Washington, Putin taxied down the runway in the distance. Putin invokes 'root causes' of war, jabs Trump foe Biden For a television president who regularly fields questions from reporters, Trump's quick exit after the meeting was abnormal. The two men spoke for a combined 12 minutes – with Putin going first. He praised Trump for convening the meeting, saying relations between the two countries had fallen to their lowest point since the Cold War. But he soon brought up old charges about the 'root causes' of the conflict that he's long blamed on NATO enlargement and Ukraine's alignment with the West. And while Putin notably said 'the security of Ukraine should be secured' and Russia was 'prepared to work on that' he did not say what he had in mind. 'I would like to hope that the agreement that we've reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine,' Putin added, without saying what it entailed. He then warned Ukrainian and European leaders not to 'throw a wrench in the works' with 'backroom dealings to conduct provocations to torpedo the nascent progress.' 'I just don't think we heard anything that signaled any sort of shift in Russia's maximal position,' David Salvo, a former State Department official who served in Russia. He cast Putin's comments as 'grandstanding' and said of security guarantees for Ukraine, 'I don't think he's ready to soften his position quite yet.' Putin also jabbed at former President Joe Biden and said he agreed with Trump's assertions that the war never would have happened if the Republican had won in 2020. Trump said Putin's comments were 'very profound.' He described the meeting as 'extremely productive' and said the two sides agreed on 'many points' without divulging the details. 'We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there,' Trump said. Trump leaves without a ceasefire agreement Hanging over the summit was a potential ceasefire, which Zelenskyy and European leaders thought could emerge from the talks. But expectations fell quickly as Trump talked up potential 'land swaps' that have been rejected by Zelenskyy. Trump sought to lower expectations ahead of the summit and cast the conversation as talks about future talks. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told CNN while the summit was happening, 'I think the best that we could hope for is that there is a commitment coming out of Putin to a ceasefire with enough contours to it that it is believable that it will be more than just a brief moment to check a box here.' The summit ended without any mention of a ceasefire by Putin or Trump, who repeated in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity after the summit that he believed an agreement was in sight. Trump added: 'Now it's up to President Zelenskyy to get it done.' He indicated that a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine was part of the discussion. Putin teases possible business deals with Trump First, there were joint hockey games. Then, there were films promoting 'traditional values.' And at their Alaska summit Putin made another enticement: potential economic investments. 'It is clear that the U.S. and Russian investment and business cooperation has tremendous potential," Putin said. "Russia and the U.S. can offer each other so much in trade, digital, high tech and in space exploration. We see that arctic cooperation is also very possible.' Accompanying Putin at the summit was Kirill Dmitriev, the special envoy for investment and economic cooperation. The Putin adviser met with Witkoff in Washington in April. 'He's bringing a lot of business people from Russia. And that's good, I like that, because they want to do business,' Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way to Alaska. 'But they're not doing business until we get the war settled.' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick came with Trump. Trump later referred to "tremendous Russian business representatives" at the summit and said "everybody wants to deal with us." In his Hannity interview, Trump indicated that Putin also tried to flatter him by saying the 2020 election he lost to Biden was 'rigged' and fanned baseless claims that the outcome was the result of widespread voter fraud. Trump rolls out the red carpet for Putin Putin received a warm reception in Alaska after years of being left out in the cold by western leaders. The summit began with Trump giving Putin an outreached hand, as the Russian leader walked down an intersecting red carpet on the tarmac to greet him. Trump clapped his hands in applause as Putin approached. They shook hands, patted each others' arms and walked together, posing for pictures on a platform with a sign reading 'Alaska 2025.' In the background: Military planes and personnel and green cloud-covered mountains. A reporter shouted "President Putin, will you stop killing civilians?" while Putin stood next to Trump on the platform. He gestured but didn't say anything. Trump and Putin rode together, without aides, to the summit in Trump's limousine. Gone was the frustration that Trump had expressed throughout the summer over Putin's reluctance to agree on a peace deal. 'I've always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir,' Trump said of his Russian counterpart as they shared a stage together in Alaska. Now what? Severe consequences? Secondary Tariffs? Another meeting? The lack of progress at the Trump-Putin summit raised questions about what comes next. Trump said he planned to speak with Zelenskyy and NATO leaders to brief them. He again talked about moderating a three-way meeting with Putin and Zelenskyy. And although he'd warned before the meeting that if Putin wasn't cooperative he would face 'severe consequences' and threatened tariff hikes on Russia's top trading partners, for now, he said he was letting China off the hook. "Because of what happened today, I think I don't have to think about that,' Trump told Hannity. 'Now I may have to think about it in two weeks or three weeks or something, but we don't have to think about that right now, I think the meeting went very well." Trump's next moves will be closely watched to see if he maintains the friendly posture toward Putin that he took at the summit or takes a firmer approach. 'By framing it as a positive meeting, in his own mind, it takes the pressure off of himself to make Russia pay a price for continuing the war,' former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst said. 'At least for right now.' Trump told reporters before the meeting that he was 'not looking to waste a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of money' negotiations and wanted to see the war quickly wrapped up. 'The wildcard now is whether Trump's actually going to get tough on Russia, or whether it's going to be in sort of endless talks and letting Russia stall for time,' said Salvo, managing director for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Takeaways: Donald Trump fails to reach peace deal with Vladimir Putin
CBS News
21 minutes ago
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Trump-Putin summit in Alaska ends with no deal on Ukraine ceasefire
Trump says he'll know if Putin wants peace deal with Ukraine soon into their Alaska meeting
New York Times
39 minutes ago
- New York Times
6 Takeaways From Trump's Meeting With Putin
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met Friday in Anchorage for the first face-to-face meeting between American and Russian leaders since Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022. That's about as much as could be gleaned of what took place in their closed-door session, which ended faster than expected and without the cease-fire Mr. Trump had been insisting was necessary to secure a peace deal. Here are six takeaways from the summit in Anchorage. The leaders did not reveal an agreement. After meeting for nearly three hours, Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin left Alaska without announcing any deal or any specific areas where they made progress. Though Mr. Putin said the leaders reached an agreement to 'pave the path towards peace in Ukraine,' Mr. Trump made clear there were still areas of disagreement. 'There's no deal until there's a deal,' he said. In a brief joint appearance before departing, both leaders alluded in vague terms to making headway, but they did not provide any clarity about what issues they discussed or where they found agreement. Mr. Trump also did not specify where the leaders still disagreed. 'Many points were agreed to, and there are just a very few that are left,' Mr. Trump said. The two men took no questions from reporters, who had been expecting to quiz the two leaders. Several had their hands in the air during what turned out to be Mr. Trump's closing remarks. Putin secured wins before and after the summit. Mr. Putin scored a win even before he arrived in the United States. After years of being ostracized by the West, he returned to American soil for the first time in a decade, welcomed by American fighter jets, a red carpet and a ride in the Beast, Mr. Trump's armored car. And Mr. Putin secured another victory when it concluded, departing the United States without making any major concessions while maintaining a warm rapport with Mr. Trump. During the last several months, the American president had been growing frustrated with Mr. Putin, seeing the Russian leader as the hurdle to a cease-fire and an eventual peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. 'He's very nice to us all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless,' Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House in early July. But on Friday, he offered no hint of frustration with his Russian counterpart, even as Mr. Trump acknowledged they had not reached an agreement. 'I've always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir,' Mr. Trump said. Trump showed deference to Putin. Despite the fact that the meeting took place on U.S. soil, Mr. Trump allowed Mr. Putin to speak first at their joint appearance. The Russian leader used the opportunity to offer his own view of the conflict in Ukraine and what he claimed were the 'root causes' of Russia's invasion. His remarks went unchallenged by a smiling Mr. Trump, who has long favored authoritarian leaders — 'the strong ones,' as he has put it. Mr. Trump, who is determined to get a Nobel Peace Prize, made no mention of his previous insistence that there needed to be an immediate cease-fire as the outcome of the meeting. If not, Mr. Trump told reporters days ago, 'there will be very severe consequences.' It remains to be seen if such consequences, such as the secondary sanctions he has threatened, will be realized. Trump got fodder for his grievances. Mr. Trump did not appear to come away with much — at least, not much that was clear when their meeting ended far earlier than anticipated — but he did get two things he valued. One was the chance to once again, and with the world watching, denounce the investigation into whether his campaign conspired with Russians in 2016, when, according to the U.S. intelligence community, Russians interfered in the election. Standing feet from Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump proclaimed it a 'hoax,' and a shared and unfair torment for both men. For his part, Mr. Putin praised his counterpart and said that he could 'confirm' something Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed: that Russia's incursion into Ukraine in early 2022 would not have happened were Mr. Trump in office at the time. Left unanswered was why Mr. Putin is pressing ahead with his war — and demand for land — now that Mr. Trump is back in power and calling for it to stop. Trump appears open to visiting Russia. When the hasty planning began for the historic summit in Alaska, some observers wondered whether — given the state's proximity to Russia of less than 60 miles — Mr. Trump would make a ceremonial visit by stepping into the neighboring country. It was not to be. But one person close to Mr. Trump indicated days before the trip that a Moscow visit might be possible down the road. So perhaps it wasn't simply a joke when, in their final moments at the podium, Mr. Putin suggested that the two leaders next meet in his capital city. Mr. Trump seemed amenable. 'Oooh, that's an interesting one,' he said, raising his eyebrows. 'I don't know, I'll get a little heat on that one. But I could see it possibly happening.' The last time a U.S. president traveled to Russia was in 2013, when President Barack Obama visited for the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg. That year also appears to be the last year that Mr. Trump was in Russia, as well, when he visited to host the Miss Universe pageant. Ahead of the pageant, Mr. Trump, who over several decades sought building projects in Russia, tried to drum up interest in the event, posting on social media, 'Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow — if so, will he become my new best friend?' Mr. Putin did not attend, although he reportedly sent a gift. Zelensky was left on the sidelines for now. The person with the most at stake on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, was left watching on television with the rest of the world. Mr. Zelensky was not invited to the summit, though Mr. Trump said he would call him and NATO leaders after he left Alaska to give them a readout of his meeting. In an interview with the Fox News host Sean Hannity after the meeting, Mr. Trump insisted he believed that there would be a meeting between Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Putin, and that the American leader may join as well. Without a deal in hand, Mr. Zelensky and his country are enmeshed in a debilitating war with Russia, without the robust assurances of ongoing U.S. military support that they received under the Biden administration. In recent days, Mr. Zelensky has criticized Moscow for continuing its attacks against Ukraine as a sign that Mr. Putin has no interest in a cease-fire or a long-term peace deal. 'The war continues, and it is precisely because there is neither an order nor a signal that Moscow is preparing to end this war,' Mr. Zelensky said in a video just before Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin met. 'On the day of negotiations, they are killing, as well. And that speaks volumes.'
