"Despite the warm welcome": Trump failed to force Putin to stop the war in Ukraine during the Alaska summit - FT

US President Donald Trump failed to secure any commitments from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine after the Alaska summit, which "began with fanfare but ended in an anticlimax." This is stated in a Financial Times article, reported by UNN.

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It is indicated that this meeting was the first between the US President and Putin since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, marking "a decisive end to years of Western attempts to isolate him."

Trump stated before the meeting that he would demand a ceasefire in Ukraine from the Russian president. He left Alaska to return to Washington without any commitments from Putin, who clearly indicated that he had not abandoned his tough demands for Ukraine's surrender

The authors point out that the US President hinted at the possibility of a future meeting with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but suggested that responsibility for ending the conflict now lies with Kyiv and its European allies.

Trump also seemed to back away from plans to strike Russia's economy if Putin did not agree to a ceasefire, suggesting he would postpone any proposal to punish importers of Russian oil, such as China

They add that the "good news" was that "there was no Yalta, no Munich," referring to the 1945 meeting of US, UK, and USSR leaders that divided Europe, and the 1938 meeting between Nazi Germany and Allied countries.

Recall

US President Donald Trump spoke about a three-hour meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, stating that significant progress had been made, although no official agreement was reached. Now, he said, everything depends on the actions of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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