{"id":1090,"date":"2025-08-16T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1090\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:51:12","slug":"trump-says-progress-made-but-no-ukraine-peace-deal-on-night-us-rolled-out-red-carpet-for-putin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1090\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says progress made but no Ukraine peace deal on night US rolled out red carpet for Putin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump called his meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin \u201cextremely productive\u201d but indicated that a deal to end the war had still not been finalised, adding that he would speak to NATO allies and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no deal until there\u2019s a deal,\u201d Mr Trump said on Friday night in Anchorage, Alaska as he stood alongside Mr Putin for a joint event that followed the longest ever face-to-face meeting between the two leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a very productive meeting. There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them. I would say a couple of big ones that we haven\u2019t quite gotten there but we\u2019ve made some headway,\u201d Mr Trump added.<\/p>\n

The press event, with the US president standing side-by-side with a leader who has been an international pariah since launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, capped a stunning day. While Mr Trump had downplayed expectations for the summit in its run-up, even insisting aboard Air Force One en route to the meeting that he would \u201cwalk away\u201d if the talks did not go well, he spoke with Mr Putin for more than 2\u00bd hours \u2014 a session longer than their 2018 summit discussions in Helsinki.<\/p>\n

\"RussianRussian president Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump before their summit on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Photograph: Sergey Bobylev\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images \"USUS president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin stand on a platform announcing their summit in Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Photograph: Gavriil Grigorov\/Pool\/AFP via Getty Images \"PresidentsPresidents Trump and Putin walk down from the ‘Alaska 2025’ platform towards their waiting car ahead of talks focused on peace in Ukraine. Photograph: Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Mr Putin cast the conversations as useful and said they were held \u201cin a constructive atmosphere\u201d. He suggested that Ukraine was only one of multiple issues they had discussed, pointing to the potential for increased trade and business cooperation as well as cooperation in the Arctic and in space exploration.<\/p>\n

He said it was important for countries to \u201cturn the page\u201d. He also closed by indicating in English that the next conversation with Mr Trump should take place in Moscow, a suggestion that Trump didn\u2019t reject.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s summit opened with a highly-choreographed spectacle that saw the US president greet Mr Putin on American soil, the Russian leader\u2019s first visit to the US in nearly a decade. The two met on the tarmac, with Mr Trump clapping as Mr Putin approached and welcoming him with a warm handshake and a pat on the arm.<\/p>\n

\"USUS President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during a US-Russia summit on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP via Getty Images \"USUS president Donald Trump extends his hand to greet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

The friendly, tactile body language offered a stark contrast to Mr Trump\u2019s shakedown of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the Oval Office in February.<\/p>\n

Ukrainians<\/a> watching from afar immediately noticed that the US had literally rolled out a red carpet for the Russian president, who is an indicted war criminal charged with kidnapping Ukrainian children<\/a> from Russian-occupied regions of their country. <\/p>\n

Mustafa Nayyem, a Ukrainian journalist-turned-politician, posted an image of US soldiers kneeling to secure the red carpet laid at the foot of Putin\u2019s plane before the Russian president emerged with the caption: \u201cMake Kneeling Great Again\u201d. <\/p>\n

\"ProtestersProtesters hold up Ukrainian flags outside Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson during a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. Photograph: Bastien Inzaurralde\/AFP via Getty Images \"SupportersSupporters of US president Donald Trump gather in Anchorage, Alaska, as he meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Ash Adams\/The New York Times <\/p>\n

The two presidents walked together towards a platform bearing a sign that read \u201cAlaska 2025\u2033 as B-2s and F-22s \u2013 military aircraft designed to oppose Russia during the cold war \u2013 flew over to mark the moment.<\/p>\n

Trump and Putin stood looking towards the media but did not respond to shouted questions including: \u201cPresident Putin, will you stop killing civilians?\u201d The Russian president, who is wanted by the international criminal court, appeared to shrug.<\/p>\n

Putin then joined Trump in the presidential limousine nicknamed \u201cthe Beast\u201d \u2013 a rare privilege for allies and adversaries alike \u2013 and could be seen laughing with glee.<\/p>\n

The men then sat together in a conference room with their respective delegations, seated to the side in front of a blue backdrop that had the words \u201cPursuing Peace\u201d printed on it several times. Pursue it they might, but in Alaska they did not deliver it. – Bloomberg\/Guardian<\/p>\n

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