What a top meeting means to Trump, Putin and Ukraine

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, left Alaska without reaching an agreement to end the fire in Ukraine.

After an almost three -hour meeting, the leaders conveyed a joint statement to the media before leaving without taking questions.

Three BBC correspondents, who are in anchor for the summit, appreciate what it means to US and Russian leaders, and what happens afterwards in the war in Ukraine.

By North American correspondent Anthony Zurher

“There is no deal until there is a deal,” Donald Trump said at the beginning of his remarks after Summit here in Anchorage.

It was a surrounded way to admit that after a few hours of talk, there was no deal. Without cessation of fire. Nothing tangible to report.

The president said he and Vladimir Putin made a “great progress”, but with a few details of what it could be, it was left to the world’s imagination.

“We didn’t get there,” he said later before leaving the room without taking questions from the hundreds of reporters collected.

Trump has been a long way to present only such vague statements, even if European allies of America and Ukrainian officials can be relieved, he does not offer unilateral discounts or agreements that could undermine future negotiations.

For a man who likes to get out as a peacemaker and a deal, it seems that Trump will not leave Alaska without any.

There is also no indication that a future summit is coming, which includes Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, the next time in Moscow Putin for their next meeting, regardless of that.

While Trump had a less bet during these negotiations than Ukraine or Russia, he will still put a dent in his domestic and international prestige, after more promises that this meeting has only a 25% chance of failure.

Moreover, the president had to undergo the apparent abuse of standing silent as Putin started from a conference press-it was not with extensive introductory notes. This was a noticeable difference from the normal routine in the oval office when the US president usually owns a court while his foreign counterpart seemed without comment.

While Alaska is an American territory, Putin looked more at home in what his employees like to note that it was once a “Russian America” before selling the 19th century in the United States. This can be fed with the US president in the coming days, as it will press the reflection that will present this summit as a flop.

The big question now – a reporters have failed to ask on Friday – is whether Trump will decide to impose his very threatened new sanctions on Russia as a punishment.

The president partially addressed the fact that within the friendly borders of an interview with Fox News before leaving, saying that he would consider such a move “maybe in two weeks, three weeks.” But given that the president promised “grave consequences”, if Russia does not turn to the cessation of fire, such a non -specific answer can encourage more questions than it answers.

By Steve Rosenberg, editor of Russia

When is the “press conference” not a press conference?

When there are no questions.

There was a tangible surprise in the hall when Presidents Putin and Trump left the podium as soon as they made their statements – without taking any questions.

The members of the Russian delegation also left the room quickly, without answering any of the questions their journalists called.

Clear signs that when it comes to war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump still have a big difference in opinions.

Donald Trump insists on a Russian reconciliation. Vladimir Putin didn’t give it to him.

Earlier during the day there was a very different vibration. President Trump removed the red carpet for Vladimir Putin, treating the Kremlin leader as an honorary guest.

The Russian president received his moment in the geopolitical light, sharing the scene with the leader of the most powerful country in the world.

But how will Trump react to what happened? He has not yet been able to persuade Putin to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Previously, he threatened a more difficult approach to Russia, with ultimatums, deadlines and warnings for more sanctions if Moscow ignored calls for fire termination.

He did not follow.

Will he do it?

By Vitaliy Shevchenko, Russia Editor BBC Monitoring

What has just happened in Anchorage may feel anti-climacactic for many, but there will be sighs in Kiev that a “deal” has not been announced, which costs Ukraine.

People from Ukraine will also know that all their key deals with Russia have broken, so even if it was announced here in Anchorage, they would be skeptical.

However, Ukrainians will be worried that, in the course of the media, Vladimir Putin again talks about the “root causes” of the conflict and said that only their elimination would lead to lasting peace.

Translated by the Kremlin -Usk, this means that he is still determined to pursue the original goal of his “special military operation” – which is to dismantle Ukraine as an independent state. Three and a half years of Western efforts failed to make him change his mind, and this now includes the Alaska summit.

The uncertainty that continues after the meeting is also alarming. What happens after that? Will Russia’s attacks continue not to be aabled?

In the last few months, there have been a sequence of the Western deadlines that came and gone without consequences, and threats that have never been fulfilled. Ukrainians see this as an invitation for Putin to continue their attacks. They can see the obvious lack of progress, an attachment achieved in the same light.