Following a meeting in the Anchorage region of Alaska, US President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said on Friday (15) that they had a very productive meeting, but did not announce a ceasefire, nor what measures were agreed on the war in Ukraine.
“We haven’t got there yet, but we’ve advanced. There is no deal until there is an agreement,” Trump told Putin after the meeting.
The American president said he would talk then to allies from NATO and Europe and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We had great progress, I always had a fantastic relationship with Vladimir, we had a lot of hard meetings, disturbed by the rumor of Russia, Russia, Russia [de interferência na eleição americana de 2016]”Said Trump, who classified the meeting as” very productive, “with” many points we agreed, “but” we haven’t got there yet. “
“Our negotiations were conducted in a constructive atmosphere of mutual respect. We had very complete and very useful negotiations. I would like to thank my American counterpart once again for the proposal to travel to Alaska,” Putin said.
“I agree with President Trump that Ukraine’s security needs to be guaranteed and, of course, we are ready to work on it,” he added. “I would like to wait for the agreement we have achieved together help us bring this goal closer and open the way to peace in Ukraine,” said Putin, without clarifying what this agreement would be, and inviting Trump for the next meeting to be in Moscow.
Trump was accompanied at the meeting of about two and a half hours by Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the special envoy to the Middle East and mediator with Kremlin, Steve Witkoff, while Putin arrived with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin International Policy Advisor.
The two leaders posed in front of a poster with the motto “seeking peace” on one of the rooms of Elmendorf-Richardson Air Base, before starting the conversation to closed doors.
