No concessions, no ceasefire- how Putin outplayed Trump in Anchorage

Russia’s leader seems to have drawn the US president closer to Moscow’s position on the Ukraine war.

After returning from Alaska on Saturday, Vladimir Putin told top officials assembled in the Kremlin that his summit with Donald Trump had “brought us closer to the necessary solutions”.

Those solutions, Putin stressed, involve Ukraine’s capitulation to the maximalist demands that prompted his 2022 invasion. “Settling these root causes [for the war] must be the foundation for a settlement,” he said.