Five assumes from the meeting

The high -bet meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was marked as a vital step towards peace in the war in Ukraine.

But without ending the fire and the invitation to Moscow, the almost three -hour meeting between the two leaders gave more questions than answers.

Here are five key assumes from the Alaska summit.

When President Vladimir Putin landed back on the world stage on Friday, the Alaska sky was cloudy. In anticipation of a red carpet, distributed on the asphalt on the joint base of Elmendorf-Richardson, was US President Donald Trump.

As Putin Trump was approaching. The two leaders warmly shook hands and smiled.

This was a remarkable moment for Putin-Leader, which most Western nations have diverted since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. His international trip has since been limited to the nations, friendly to the Russian Federation, such as North Korea and Belarus.

The fact that the Alaska summit happened at all was a victory for Putin. But this welcome would go beyond the Kremlin’s most funny dreams. For a short six months, Putin moved from Paria to the West’s eyes to be met on American soil as a partner and friend.

To limit it, at an apparently unwritten moment, Putin decided to accept an elevator to the Trump armored air base instead of driving in his own Moscow presidential government car.

As the vehicle pulled away, the cameras rose to Putin, sitting in the back seat and laughing.

Over his 25 years, as Russian President Putin has achieved full control of the media, crushing journalistic freedoms and replacing information with propaganda. Within Russia, it is not often – if at all – it confronts unfriendly reporters.

Still, just minutes after landing in Alaska, a journalist shouted in his direction: “Will you stop killing civilians?” If the question worried him, he did not show him, appearing instead to shrink and deflect his gaze.

During a brief and somewhat chaotic photo operation, more questions were called, including one language whether Putin would be ready to meet with President Volodimir Zelenski for a three -sided summit. Again, there was no obvious reaction from the Russian president beyond the encryptic smile.

The world media gathered in the room with Putin and Trump were forced to expect a press conference; Instead, the two leaders made statements and did not take questions from reporters.

Unusually Putin was the first to talk. He praised the “constructive atmosphere of mutual respect” of the “neighborhood” conversations and then began in a shortened history of Alaska’s past as Russian territory.

As Putin was talking, Trump stood in silence. It was a few minutes before the Russian president mentioned what he called the “situation in Ukraine” – the seemingly catalyst for the summit. When he did, it had to be said that although an unspecified “agreement” had been reached, the “root causes” of the conflict had to be eliminated before peace could be reached.

The phrase will cancel bells for alarms in Kyiv and beyond. Since the beginning of the war, it has become a transcript for a series of insoluble and maximalist demands, which Putin says are in the way of ceasing the fire.

These include the recognition of the Russian sovereignty over the Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, the attraction and Harson, and Ukraine agree to demilitarization, neutrality, without foreign military participation and new elections. In essence, they are capitulation-unacceptable for Kiev, but clearly, even after three and a half years of bloody conflict, all of them are of paramount importance to Moscow.

It was clear that there was no deal.

Extremely – given the context and the prerequisite for the summit – when it was Trump’s turn to speak, he did not mention Ukraine or the possibility of ending fire once. The closest thing he came to the mention of the conflict said “five, six, seven thousand people a week” were killed and noted that Putin also wanted to see the end of the bloodshed.

Usually, the love Trump seemed to be less than Putin. His statement was remarkable with his relative and unusual brevity – but mostly with his unclearness. “There were many, many points we agreed,” Trump said, adding that “great progress” was achieved in an “extremely productive meeting”.

But he did not share any details and did not seem that any specific steps taken to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. No major agreements or a tripartite meeting were announced with President Zelenski.

And – about Moscow’s relief – there was no mention of any “serious consequences” that Trump threatened would follow if no fire was terminated.

“We didn’t get there,” Trump admitted.

Then, optimistic, though unclear, he added, “But we have a very good chance of getting there.”

The summit may have failed to make some tangible progress to peace in Ukraine, but it has increased the rapprochement between Russia and the United States.

Photos of the two presidents, repeatedly shaking hands and grinning, traveled far and widely on social media – as well as the images of US servicemen kneeling as they rolled the red carpet at the foot of Putin’s plane.

Prior to the end of his statement, Putin cited one of the frequent points of the US President – that the conflict in Ukraine would never start if Trump was in power.

Despite Trump’s claim of “great progress”, nothing was essentially revealed at the Alaska summit – nevertheless the two leaders left the door open for another meeting, this time on Russian soil. “I’ll probably see you again very soon,” Trump said.

Rounding a joint statement where he had to make promises, no discounts and no compromises, Putin may have felt quiet enough to break into English – a rare occurrence. Grinding, he looked at Trump and said, “Next time in Moscow.”

“Oh, that’s interesting,” Trump said. “I’ll get some heat on this one, but I – I could see that it could happen.”