Alaska summit: ‘The visuals around this meeting are pretty disconcerting to Ukrainians’

US President Donald Trump offered a warm welcome to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday (August 15) as they met at length in a high-stakes summit in Alaska. Before the press conference, FRANCE 24’s Jean-Emile Jammine spoke to Peter Zalmayev, director of the Eurasian Democracy Initiative. “The theatrics and the visuals around this meeting are pretty disconcerting to Ukrainians”, he said.

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26 comments
  1. Trump is trying to convince Putin in other to end the war. The alternative will be to use nuclear weapons at both ends. This is a lesser evil way. Trump does not love Putin but he must find a way to stop the bombings. Is Ukraine still being bombed. There is a way to go around a formidable enemy so the world does not come to an end

  2. Ukraine and Russia should go to marriage counsel at the UN in Vienna, Austria, but they cannot since no one declared war in Ukraine or in Russia

  3. I mean, it's all nonsense. Nothing's going to happen. The war is going to continue until one side is defeated on the battlefield. That's it.

  4. Making America great again!!! Ukraine thinks it dictates to the world with emperor Zelenskyy. Think again!!! To h@ll with you!

  5. The Trump–Putin meeting wasn’t diplomacy. It was kitsch theater for the cameras. Don’t take part in the charade of overanalyzing it.

  6. The only thing Trump can negotiate with Putin is the return of Alaska… and that's what they did in the car… technology has replaced translators/dangerous witnesses…

  7. both donald and vladimir are brilliant liars. They said this meeting was to discuss Ukraine war.

    If we know they are both liars – why does everyone think this meeting was about the Ukraine War????????

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