Trump: ‘No deal till there is a deal’
David Smith
That was fast. Donald Trump left extra questions than solutions as he fawned over Vladimir Putin however gave treasured few particulars about their excessive stakes summit.
“I believe we had a very productive meeting,” he mentioned. “There were many, many points that we agreed on… There’s no deal until there’s a deal. I will call up Nato… I’ll of course call up President Zelenskyy and tell him about today’s meeting… We really made some great progress.”
He added: “I’ve always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin – with Vladimir… We were interfered with by the ‘Russia Russia Russia’ hoax.”
Trump warmly thanked Putin, who invited him to Moscow, and dozens of reporters shouted questions however in useless. The US president, who can usually by no means resist speaking and speaking, left the stage with out answering any of them.
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Trump-Putin information convention abruptly ends with no questions from reporters and no particulars of settlement
Donald Trump ended his temporary remarks on the joint information convention by thanking Vladimir Putin, and saying that they might communicate once more quickly.
“Next time in Moscow”, Putin replied in English.
Trump then referred to as the information convention to an finish with out taking any questions from the assembled reporters, or providing any particulars of what Putin referred to as the settlement that they had reached of their three hours of talks.
Trump calls assembly with Putin ‘extraordinarily productive’ however says extra must be executed to finish struggle in Ukraine
Donald Trump simply started his very temporary remarks by saying that the talks with Putin have been “extremely productive” however extra must be executed to resolve the battle in Ukraine.
“I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many, many points that we agreed on”, Trump mentioned. “There’s no deal until there’s a deal. I will call up NATO… I’ll of course call up president Zelensky and tell him about today’s meeting”.
“We really made some great progress”, Trump mentioned with out revealing any particulars of what that progress was.
“I’m going to start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened, but we had an extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to”, Trump mentioned. “There are just a very few that are left. Some are not that significant, one is probably the most significant. But we have a very good chance of getting there, we didn’t get there but we have a very good chance of getting there”.
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have begun their joint press convention in Anchorage, Alaska, standing at lecterns towards a blue backdrop that claims “Pursuing peace”.
Unusually, the visiting international chief went first. Talking through Russian interpreter, Putin mentioned he gave Trump a “neighbourly” greeting at present as a result of the US and Russia are neighbours and Alaska is a reminder of this. He acknowledged bilateral relations fell to the “lowest point since the cold war”.
Putin described Trump’s efforts on Ukraine as “precious” and claimed “everything that’s happening is a tragedy for us and terrible wound”. With out giving particulars, Putin mentioned at present’s “agreement” might assist Ukraine’s safety and urged Europe to “not throw a wrench in the works” and “not use backroom dealings” to torpedo it.
Putin says he reached an settlement with Trump
Putin says that he has reached an settlement with Trump and hopes that leaders in Kyiv “won’t throw a wrench” into the method of carry the struggle to an finish. He affords no particulars on what the settlement is.
He additionally repeated his frequent demand that the foundation causes of the battle have to be addressed. Prior to now, Putin has instructed that these causes embrace the elected authorities of Ukraine, which he has falsely claimed is led by Nazis.
Putin notes that Trump has claimed that the full-scale struggle that started with Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 wouldn’t have occurred had Trump been the US president. Putin says that he agrees.
Putin speaks first on the joint information convention in Alaska
Vladimir Putin is talking first on the joint information convention in Alaska after his talks with Donald Trump wrapped up forward of schedule.
Putin mentioned the talks have been constructive earlier than shifting on to debate the previous Russian management of Alaska, noting the a whole lot of Russian names of cities and quite a few Russian Orthodox church buildings within the state.
The Russian chief’s emphasis on the historic Russian “heritage” of the US state is not going to be comforting to Ukrainian listeners, given Putin’s declare that all the nation, which was as soon as a part of the Russian empire, ought to be thought-about a part of the “Russian world”.
“We have always considered the Ukrainian nation a brotherly nation” Putin says.
Trump-Putin summit information convention begins
Donald Trump’s talks with Vladimir Putin on the struggle in Ukraine have concluded sooner than anticipated and a joint information convention with the 2 presidents is about to start at a US navy base in Anchorage, Alaska. We’ve got dwell video from the room, and can carry you updates on their remarks right here on the weblog.
Kremlin says Putin’s talks with Trump are over
The Russian international ministry stories on social media that the primary spherical of talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are over. Video posted on X by the ministry reveals Putin strolling away from the room and speaking to his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.
The ministry says a joint information convention is predicted to start quickly.
The unexpectedly quick talks have prompted hypothesis that the assembly didn’t go nicely. Prematurely of the summit, Trump did say: “I’ll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes. We tend to find out whether or not we’re going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting, and if it’s a bad meeting, it’ll end very quickly”.
Reporters have been referred to as into the room arrange for a joint information convention with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, my colleague David Smith stories from Anchorage.
We are going to carry you updates right here as soon as the occasion begins, however the timing is a little bit of a shock, since Trump’s aide, Dan Scavino, posted on X lower than an hour in the past that the primary of two deliberate conferences between the US and Russian delegations was nonetheless happening. That session, during which the 2 leaders have been joined by two international coverage advisers, was to have been adopted by a bigger working lunch.
White Home edits out Trump’s applause for Putin in social media clip
As our colleague David Smith reported from Anchorage earlier, Donald Trump applauded Vladimir Putin, a number of instances, when the 2 males met on a purple carpet on the US airbase the place they’re now assembly in personal with their prime international coverage advisers.
The Kremlin Press Workplace rapidly distributed {a photograph} of the US president clapping for “his Russian counterpart” to information businesses.
The truth that the US president clapped for the Russian president and indicted struggle felony, prompted the Russia-born chilly struggle historian Sergey Radchenko to put up a mind-blown emoji on X. “I argued in my book how the Russians crave nothing quite as much as recognition by the U.S.” he added. “Well, there we have it. There it is.”
Trump’s three rounds of applause have been captured on a dwell stream on the White Home YouTube channel. However, a couple of minutes later, when the White Home posted video of the greeting on social media, the clip was edited to start a split-second after Trump completed his third spherical of applause for Putin.
The video posted on the official White Home Instagram and X accounts reveals that Trump’s left arm continues to be swinging by his facet because the clip begins. A have a look at the unique dwell stream reveals that his arm had simply dropped to his facet at that time, after being raised in entrance of the president to clap for the Russian chief wished by the Worldwide Prison Court docket for the kidnapping of Ukrainian kids.
Ukrainians mock Trump for rolling out the purple carpet for Putin
As Donald Trump hosts Vladimir Putin for talks in Alaska aimed toward ending the Russian struggle on Ukraine, some Ukrainians watching from afar have seen that the US actually rolled out a purple carpet for the Russian president, who’s an indicted struggle felony charged with kidnapping Ukrainian kids from Russian-occupied areas of their nation.
Mustafa Nayyem, a Ukrainian journalist turned politician, posted a picture of US troopers kneeling to safe the purple carpet laid on the foot of Putin’s aircraft earlier than the Russian president emerged with the caption: “Make Kneeling Great Again”.
Nayyem, who helped set up the 2013 protest motion on Maidan, Kyiv’s Independence Sq., that toppled Putin’s ally Viktor Yanukovych, was not alone.
Olga Rudenko, the editor of the Kyiv Impartial, shared the identical picture with the caption: “This is Putin’s new phone wallpaper. American soldiers kneeling under the big letters reading RUSSIA. To fix the red carpet. For a war criminal.” The Russian presidential jet is emblazoned with the phrase RUSSIA, written in Cyrillic letters.
A Ukrainian soldier, Oleksandr Solonko, wrote: “I feel very sorry for the American military who were forced to roll out the red carpet for the greatest war criminal whose propaganda system has been smearing their country for many years.”
The symbolism didn’t go unnoticed in Russia. Video of the US troops kneeling on the carpet beneath Putin’s aircraft was posted on Telegram by the Russian information channel Zvezda, or Star, which is owned by the Russian protection ministry. That clip was later shared on X by a German who helps Ukraine and in contrast Putin to Hitler.
“Western media are on the verge of completely losing it”, Maria Zakharova, the Russian international ministry spokeswoman, noticed on social media. “They spent three years telling everyone Russia was isolated, and today they saw the beautiful red carpet laid out for the Russian president in the US”.
‘On the day of negotiations, the Russians are killing as nicely,’ Zelenskyy says from Kyiv
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin started their summit in Alaska centered on ending Russia’s struggle on Ukraine, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, delivered an replace on the combating in a social media tackle from Kyiv.
“On the day of negotiations, the Russians are killing as well. And that speaks volumes,” Zelenskyy wrote in a put up on X accompanying his video replace.
He ran by an inventory of Russian targets. “Sumy – a Russian strike on the central market. Dnipro region – strikes on cities and enterprises. Zaporizhzhia, Kherson region, Donetsk region – deliberate Russian strikes. The war continues, and it is precisely because there is neither an order nor even a signal that Moscow is preparing to end this war,” Ukraine’s president mentioned.
“Russia must end the war that it itself started and has been dragging out for years,” he added. “The killings must stop. A meeting of leaders is needed – at the very least, Ukraine, America, and the Russian side – and it is precisely in such a format that effective decisions are possible. Security guarantees are needed. Lasting peace is needed.”
Trump-Putin assembly is underneath method
The summit between the 2 leaders and their respective cupboard officers started at 11.32am native time.
Trump and Putin start summit, joined by respective delegations
We’re getting some footage of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, joined by their respective delegations in a room forward of their assembly. Behind the leaders is a blue backdrop that had the phrases “pursuing peace” printed on it.
The White Home press pool, who’re travelling with the president, say that Trump and Putin have been sat in place by 11.26am native time, and the press have been ushered out of the room by 11.27am.
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Carrying a darkish go well with, white shirt and purple tie, the US president descended the steps from Air Power One at 11.08am native time and regarded glum as he walked a purple carpet.
Trump got here to a cease and, as Putin approached, applauded the Russian chief, then gave him a heat handshake and pleasant faucet on the arm. Putin appeared to crack a joke and each males smiled.
The boys walked collectively in direction of a platform bearing the signal: “Alaska 2025” Reporters shouted questions at Putin together with, “Will you agree to a ceasefire?” and “Will you stop killing civilians?” Putin appeared to shrug.
Putin then joined Trump within the presidential limousine ‘The Beast’ – a uncommon privilege for allies and adversaries alike – and could possibly be seen laughing.
Trump and Putin drove away within the US president’s official automobile, nicknamed “the Beast”.
Trump and Putin greet one another as summit begins
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin de-boarded their respective aircrafts, shook palms, and stood on a stage with “ALASKA 2025” emblazoned on the entrance, because the world’s press captured the second.
Putin to be joined by Russian cupboard officers at summit
Russian state media is reporting that Vladimir Putin will probably be joined by his international minister Sergey Lavrov and advisor Yuri Ushakov for his assembly with Donald Trump. It is going to now be a three-on-three summit, because the US president will probably be joined by secretary of state Marco Rubio and particular envoy Steve Witkoff.
Putin lands in Alaska forward of summit
Russian president Vladimir Putin has landed in Anchorage, based on Russian state media.
