Ukraine politicians regretted on Friday (15) that a ceasefire was not announced by US President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin after a meeting of about two and a half hours in the Anchorage region of Alaska.
After the meeting, the two leaders spoke to the press that the conversations were productive, but gave no further details, nor did they announce a truce in hostilities.
“We haven’t got there yet, but we’ve advanced. There is no deal until there is an agreement,” Trump said. Putin said he hopes “that the agreement we have achieved” will help “make way for peace in Ukraine”, without clarifying what agreement that would be.
Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of the Ukrainian Foreign Relations Commission, expressed his frustration to The New York Times.
“I think that [a reunião] It was a failure because Putin returned to talk about security issues and used his usual rhetoric, ”said Merezhko.” I see no change. “
The Ukrainian deputy said Putin “won the Information War”: “He used Trump to show that he is not isolated.”
Another Ukrainian deputy, Oleksiy Goncharenko, wrote on Telegram that the meeting only served Putin to “earn time.” “No ceasefire or any reduction in tension has been agreed,” he said.
Reinforcing the impression that the meeting was a diplomatic victory of Putin, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, mocked the West press, referring to the great reception that the Russian dictator had in Alaska.
“Western media is in a state that can be described as a frenzy, becoming completely madness: three years ago, they have been reporting that Russia has been isolated, and today they have seen the extended red carpet to greet the Russian president in the United States,” he celebrated in a Telegram post.
