visit to the Oval Office<\/a>, where Trump treated him like a \u201crepresentative of a rogue state,\u201d said Roderich Kiesewetter, a member of the German parliament.<\/p>\nPutin has \u201cbroken out of international isolation,\u201d returning to the world stage as one of two global leaders and \u201cwasn\u2019t in the least challenged\u201d by Trump, who ignored the arrest warrant for Putin from the ICC, Bristow told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
For Putin, \u2018mission accomplished\u2019<\/p>\n
Putin \u201ccame to the Alaska summit with the principal goal of stalling any pressure on Russia to end the war,\u201d said Neil Melvin, director of international security at the London-based Royal United Services Institute. \u201cHe will consider the summit outcome as mission accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n
In recent months, Trump has pressed for a ceasefire, something Ukraine and its allies supported and insisted was a prerequisite for any peace talks. The Kremlin has pushed back, however, arguing it\u2019s not interested in a temporary truce -\u2013 only in a long-term peace agreement. <\/p>\n
Moscow\u2019s official demands for peace so far have remained nonstarter for Kyiv: It wants Ukraine to cede four regions that Russia only partially occupies, along with the Crimean Peninsula, illegally annexed in 2014. Ukraine also must renounce its bid to join NATO and shrink its military, the Kremlin says. <\/p>\n
After Alaska, Trump appeared to echo the Kremlin\u2019s position on a ceasefire, posting on social media that after he spoke to Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, \u201cit was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement after the Trump call, the European leaders did not address whether a peace deal was preferable to a ceasefire. <\/p>\n
The summit took place a week after a deadline Trump gave the Kremlin to stop the war or face additional sanctions on its exports of oil in the form of secondary tariffs on countries buying it. <\/p>\n
Trump already imposed those tariffs on India, and if applied to others, Russian revenues \u201cwould probably be impacted very badly and very quickly,\u201d said Chris Weafer, CEO of Macro-Advisory Ltd. consultancy.<\/p>\n
In the days before Alaska, Trump also threatened unspecified \u201cvery severe consequences\u201d if Putin does not agree to stop the war. But whether those consequences will materialize remains unclear. Asked about that in a post-summit interview with Fox News Channel, Trump said he doesn\u2019t need \u201cto think about that right now,\u201d and suggested he might revisit the idea in \u201ctwo weeks or three weeks or something.\u201d <\/p>\n
More pressure on Ukraine<\/p>\n
In a statement after the summit, Putin claimed the two leaders had hammered out an \u201cunderstanding\u201d on Ukraine and warned Europe not to \u201ctorpedo the nascent progress.\u201d But Trump said \u201cthere\u2019s no deal until there\u2019s a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his Fox interview, Trump insisted the onus going forward might be on Zelenskyy \u201cto get it done,\u201d but said there would also be some involvement from European nations.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy will meet Trump at the White House on Monday. Both raised the possibility of a trilateral summit with Putin, but Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said it wasn\u2019t discussed in Alaska. The Kremlin has long maintained that Putin would only meet Zelenskyy in the final stages of peace talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrump now appears to be shifting responsibility towards Kyiv and Europe, while still keeping a role for himself,\u201d Tatiana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Center wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Fiona Hill, a senior adviser on Russia to Trump during his first administration, told AP that he has met his match because \u201cPutin is a much bigger bully.\u201d <\/p>\n
Trump wants to be the negotiator of \u201ca big real estate deal between Russia and Ukraine,\u201d she said, but in his mind he can \u201capply real pressure\u201d only to one side \u2014 Kyiv.<\/p>\n
Hill said she expects Trump to tell Zelenskyy that \u201cyou\u2019re really going to have to make a deal\u201d with Putin because Trump wants the conflict off his plate and is not prepared to put pressure on the Russian president.<\/p>\n
Far from the summit venue and its backdrop saying \u201cPursuing Peace,\u201d Russia continued to bombard Ukraine and make incremental advances on the over 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) front.<\/p>\n
Russia fired a ballistic missile and 85 drones overnight. Ukraine shot down or intercepted 61 drones, its air force said. Front-line areas of Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Chernihiv were attacked.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said it had taken control of the village of Kolodyazi in the Donetsk region, along with Vorone in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Ukraine did not comment on the claims. Russian forces are closing in on the strongholds of Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2022 but still only partially controls.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless Mr. Putin is absolutely convinced that he cannot win militarily, the fighting is not going to stop,\u201d said Bristow, the former ambassador. \u201cThat\u2019s the big takeaway from the Anchorage summit.\u201d <\/p>\n
___ <\/p>\n
Associated Press writers John Leicester in Paris and Elise Morton and Pan Pylas in London contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Alaska, President Vladimir Putin walked on a red carpet, shook hands and exchanged smiles with his American…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[934,3881,88854,69,88852,57,88853,50,80,257,3658,3657,273,67,132,68,274,3656,96,107,77429],"class_list":{"0":"post-151468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-alaska","10":"tag-ap-top-news","11":"tag-chris-weafer","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-fiona-hill","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-neil-melvin","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-russia-government","20":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-vladimir-putin","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","27":"tag-war-and-unrest","28":"tag-world-news","29":"tag-yuri-ushakov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115040559073900510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}