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CNN
3 days ago
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- CNN
Live updates: Trump-Putin summit ends without concrete deal on Ukraine
Update: Date: 20 min ago Title: Analysis: No deal in Alaska, but Putin still walks away with some big wins Content: Ukraine could have had a worse night. No deal was cooked up without them. US President Donald Trump looked upset and tired. Perhaps because Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared unbowed, still talking about the 'root causes' of the war, and sounding unreformed. In what sounded like a threat, he even warned Kyiv and its European allies to not meddle in whatever ongoing process he believes he has dragged Trump into. 'We expect that Kyiv and European capitals will perceive all this in a constructive manner and will not create any obstacles, will not make attempts to disrupt the emerging progress through provocations and behind-the-scenes intrigues,' Putin said. Trump's call to Kyiv and its NATO allies may present some sort of framework that Putin deemed an 'agreement,' but ultimately in the look on Trump's face and his words, it was clear he made no significant deal that he thinks will fly. The two didn't even have lunch together and Putin raced out on his plane. The hardest bits of negotiations are the bits that are left to be agreed at the end. And Trump's statement that there were some 'big' things left unsolved suggests little movement on issues like what land Putin wants and a ceasefire. But there are two big wins here for Putin. First, the remarkable vision of a red carpet welcome to the United States and a ride in 'the Beast' — which both present as an extraordinary form of reputational rehabilitation for an alleged war criminal. It was a horrific sight for many Ukrainians; soured further still by the Kremlin head calling Ukraine a 'brotherly' nation, despite murdering its civilians for three and a half years. The second win is time. Putin has bought more for his forces to advance across the frontline. It is unclear if Trump is sufficiently riled that secondary sanctions may follow in the days ahead. But Putin did not seem to behave as if he was in a hurry, suggesting further meetings and ongoing work. Time matters as Putin's summer offensive is close to turning incremental gains into strategic wins. In the end, Ukraine will wake up with its world unchanged. A ghastly world, but with no sudden US-Russian rapprochement or deal to try and swallow. Update: Date: 20 min ago Title: Key lines from Trump and Putin's joint press briefing Content: No one really knows what Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed yesterday during their lengthy summit in Alaska, as the two did not take questions from reporters after a joint news briefing. But the closed-door talks were ultimately characterized positively by both leaders, even though a critical deal on ending the war in Ukraine was not reached. Here are key lines from the briefing that you should know: Breaking tradition: Putin began remarks at the briefing by acknowledging that US-Russia relations have suffered in recent years. Usually when an American president hosts a foreign counterpart, a joint news conference would begin with remarks from the US leader followed by his guest. Progress on reaching a deal: Trump said he and Putin 'made some headway' and 'great progress' in their bilateral meeting. Still, he added, 'there's no deal until there's a deal.' Putin said the primary causes of the war must be eliminated for the war in Ukraine to end. The Russian leader also told Ukrainian and European leaders not to interfere with 'the emerging progress.' Positive summary: Negotiations between Putin and Trump were held in a 'respectful, constructive and mutually respectful atmosphere,' Putin said. Trump said they had 'an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to.' Other topics mentioned: Putin said he agrees that the security of Ukraine should be ensured. He also claimed at one point that the war in Ukraine would not have happened had Trump been president in 2022. What's next: Trump said he has various calls to make following the summit — some of which include calls to NATO, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other appropriate officials. CNN's Aditi Sangal, Nina Subkhanberdina, Darya Tarasova, Michael Rios, Kit Maher, Tori B. Powell, Kevin Liptak, Katharina Krebs, Mitchell McCluskey, and Adam Cancryn contributed reporting. Update: Date: 20 min ago Title: Trump says striking a deal now up to Zelensky Content: President Donald Trump is putting the onus on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate a ceasefire, saying yesterday evening that there would soon be a meeting set up between Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'Now it's really up to President Zelensky to get it done,' Trump said in a Fox News interview following his sitdown with Putin in Alaska. 'They're going to set up a meeting now between President Zelensky and President Putin and myself, I guess.' Trump during the interview declined to detail the final issues that are holding up a deal, saying only that he wants 'to see what we can get done.' But despite not reaching an agreement on yesterday, he touted the summit as a success, ranking the meeting a 10 out of 10, 'in the sense that we got along great.' 'I want to make sure it gets done,' he added. 'And we have a pretty good chance of getting it done.' Update: Date: 20 min ago Title: Analysis: Russian media ecstatic as US rolls out the red carpet for Putin Content: In Russia, the reaction to the summit between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump has been more than positive. Russian media was ecstatic when the Russian leader received applause from the US president as the red carpet was literally rolled out for Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. 'For years they have been talking about the isolation of Russia, and today they saw the red carpet that greeted the Russian president,' Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry wrote on social media. While both Trump and Putin said agreements have been reached, it's unclear what exactly those are. Meanwhile, Putin does not appear to have backed down from Russia's core demands. The Russian leader in his remarks after the meeting said any deal needs 'to consider all legitimate concerns of Russia and to reinstate a just balance of security in Europe and in the world on the whole.' It's not clear how much progress was made toward a ceasefire in Ukraine, but both Trump and Putin have said they ultimately want to normalize relations between the US and Russia and they want to meet again. 'Next time in Moscow,' Russia's leader said. Update: Date: 20 min ago Title: Eastern European officials react with skepticism to Putin's comments Content: Senior government officials in Eastern Europe have reacted with skepticism to comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin following the Alaska summit. While saying he was interested in ending the conflict, Putin said the primary causes needed to be 'eliminated' for that to happen, adding that the 'situation in Ukraine' had to do with 'fundamental threats to (Russia's) security.' In a post on X on Saturday morning local time, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene accused Putin of 'more gaslighting and veiled threats,' a reference to the Russian leader issuing a warning to Ukraine and Europe not to 'sabotage' progress made at the summit. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said in a statement that he welcomed US President Donald Trump's efforts but doubted Putin's interest in a deal, according to Reuters. 'If Putin were serious about negotiating peace, he would not have been attacking Ukraine all day today,' he said. Update: Date: 20 min ago Title: US and Russia to continue building relations despite "resistance," top Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev says Content: Russia's top economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev said the US received Russia 'very well' in Alaska and that the two countries would continue building relations despite 'resistance.' 'The US-Russia summit in Alaska has definitely been productive,' Dmitriev said, adding that there were 'lots of issues that we discussed and many we agreed.' 'Some of them are to be agreed and definitely it's very important that President (Donald) Trump outlines a significant economic potential of cooperation between the US and Russia,' Dmitriev said. 'We will continue building US-Russia relations going forward despite lots of the resistance to this, but we will continue strengthening US-Russia ties.' Update: Date: 21 min ago Title: "It was positive that there was no deal," CNN's Fareed Zakaria says Content: The red-carpet welcome in Alaska for Russian President Vladimir Putin signals that US President Donald Trump 'thinks Putin is, you know, an equal,' says CNN's Fareed Zakaria. Trump treated Putin like 'this big shot on the world stage, and he's been treated by the rest of the west as a kind of pariah,' Zakaria said, referring to an ICC war crimes warrant issued for the Russian president's arrest that restricts his movements around the globe. 'So there was a lot of the atmospherics that were cringeworthy,' he said. However, Zakaria said that in his analysis, 'it was a positive that there was no deal.'I think everyone was worried that there was going to be a deal in which Trump was going to make major concessions. I don't think anyone thought Putin was going to make any concessions. The fear was that Donald Trump was going to cave in the various ways — sell out Ukraine, sell out Europeans. And he didn't do that. And so I think, you know, I'm at least relieved,' Zakaria said. Update: Date: 20 min ago Title: Trump and Putin skipped Q&A because 'exhaustive statements were made,' Kremlin spokesperson says Content: US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin skipped answering questions at yesterday's joint news conference because their statements said it all, according to the Kremlin's spokesperson. 'Exhaustive statements were made,' Dmitry Peskov said when asked why the two leaders only delivered remarks at the news conference, according to Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. 'The conversation is really very positive, and the two presidents spoke about it. This is the very conversation that allows us to confidently continue moving forward together on the path of seeking resolution options,' Peskov said, RIA reported. Update: Date: 11 min ago Title: Trump says he and Putin made "great progress" toward a deal and that he's calling Zelensky and NATO leaders Content: US President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin 'made some headway' and 'great progress' in their bilateral meeting, but added that 'there's no deal until there's a deal.' 'I will call up NATO in a little while. I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate. And I'll, of course, call up President [Volodymyr] Zelensky and tell him about today's meeting. It's ultimately up to them,' Trump said after today's summit in Anchorage, Alaska.'We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to,' Trump said, adding, 'We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.' Trump added that Ukraine would have to 'agree' with what Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and others in his administration discussed with Putin today, though he did not delve into specifics on any framework for a deal. Trump and Putin took no questions after their statements. Putin kicked of remarks and spoke for about eight minutes. Trump, who is known for typically longer and at times free-wheeling news conferences, only spoke for about four minutes. 'I'm going to start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened,' Trump said.
CNN
3 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
Trump: 'No Deal' After Putin Meeting, But 'Great Progress' - The Source with Kaitlan Collins - Podcast on CNN Podcasts
Trump: 'No Deal' After Putin Meeting, But 'Great Progress' The Source with Kaitlan Collins 46 mins Both Putin and Trump have left Alaska after spending about six hours on the ground. Putin also characterized the talks positively but neither leader took questions after reading statements to reporters.
Al Jazeera
3 days ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
'We didn't get there' – Trump and Putin Ukraine meeting falls short
'We didn't get there' – Trump and Putin Ukraine meeting falls short NewsFeed US President Donald Trump says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin made progress during three hours of talks in Alaska to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war, but that there's 'no deal.'. Putin said they are 'ready to work' on outstanding issues. Video Duration 01 minutes 59 seconds 01:59 Video Duration 00 minutes 39 seconds 00:39 Video Duration 00 minutes 57 seconds 00:57 Video Duration 01 minutes 11 seconds 01:11 Video Duration 02 minutes 06 seconds 02:06 Video Duration 01 minutes 06 seconds 01:06 Video Duration 01 minutes 04 seconds 01:04
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Eddie Miller, management consultant who became a fierce champion of the Brexit campaign
Edgar 'Eddie' Miller, who has died aged 82, was a London-based American management consultant who became passionately involved in the Brexit campaign. In the run-up to the 2016 referendum, Miller observed that the official Leave campaign, though strong on emotional appeal, was in danger of losing the economic argument. He set out to corral a disputacious collection of free-market academics and Eurosceptic politicians as 'Economists for Brexit' to present a more coherent case for UK prosperity outside the EU. Professor Patrick Minford of Cardiff Business School chaired the group, while Miller – 'an old-fashioned mover-and-shaker,' as one colleague put it, and a highly effective fundraiser, by turns charming and forceful – acted as convener and chief whip. After the referendum was won, the group became Economists for Free Trade and campaigned for a no-deal Brexit in the belief that Britain outside the EU would be better off trading on World Trade Organisation terms rather than accepting the restrictions of a potentially vindictive withdrawal agreement with Brussels, then under negotiation by the Prime Minister, Theresa May. 'The supposed cliff-edge of leaving the EU on WTO terms is another Millennium Bug,' Miller declared. 'The cacophony about the short-term has shouted down any fundamental thought about the inherent benefits of No Deal.' Starting from a position in which there were no existing trade barriers between the EU and the UK, the imposition of tit-for-tat tariffs would, Miller and Minford argued in a 2017 pamphlet, What shall we do if the EU will not play ball?, 'lose half the gain from achieving global free trade, disrupt manufacturing supply chains, and is likely to harden the EU's resolve not to climb down over the long term.' In opposition to so-called Project Fear predictions of post-Brexit economic failure, Miller argued that No Deal, and reversion to WTO rules, would lead to significant gains in growth and falls in consumer prices. But the group was disbanded after the UK's final departure from the EU, on terms agreed by Boris Johnson, on January 31 2020. Edgar Allen Miller was born on November 9 1942 into a farming family from west Texas. Brought up in Dallas with four younger sisters, he won scholarships to the University of Texas and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent his early career with the Texas Instruments company before moving to Silicon Valley to work for Fairchild Semiconductor, one of the pioneers of the digital age. He went on to study at Harvard Business School before joining the management consultants McKinsey & Co and moving to London, where he lived the bachelor high life, playing polo – and baseball in Hyde Park on Sunday mornings – and driving a white Jaguar E-Type. He later helped to found a private equity fund for the US investment bank Dillon Read in London and taught as a visiting professor at the Cass (now Bayes) Business School. He ran his own consultancy firm, Palladian, and maintained private venture investments which included an early stake in US shale-gas fracking – the subject of some controversy when he emerged as a donor and fundraiser for Lord (Nigel) Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation. As an adviser to the Conservative Party, Miller claimed to have helped draft its 2005 manifesto. He declared 'the utmost admiration and respect' for Lawson but gave a caustic account of lunch with David Cameron as prime minister ('basically a bullshitter') and George Osborne as chancellor ('arrogant… but more intellectual substance'). Edgar Miller married, in Dallas in 2000, Gillian Chalk, daughter of Sir Gervais Blois, Bt, and mother of Alex Chalk, the former Conservative MP who was Lord Chancellor in Rishi Sunak's cabinet. The marriage was dissolved in 2020 and he is survived by the partner of his final years, Clare Copeman. Edgar Miller, born November 9 1942, died March 27 2025 Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
