All eyes had been on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as they met for the primary time in additional than six years, the Russian president visiting the US for high-stakes talks anticipated beforehand to doubtlessly form the conflict in Ukraine.
The 2 leaders greeted one another with a handshake after stepping off their planes on the Elmendorf-Richardson army base in Anchorage, Alaska – and a smiling Trump even applauded Putin as he approached him on a pink carpet that had been laid out.
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They didn’t take questions from reporters – leaving maybe much more than earlier than the talks began.
Right here is the view from our correspondents on what the summit means for Ukraine, Putin and Trump.
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What we discovered from Trump-Putin information convention
‘The primary query: what’s probably the most important stumbling block?’
Had they talked about a ceasefire at present, it could have modified the character of the dialogue, says US correspondent James Matthews. We seem like effectively in need of that, I believe.
Putin’s assertion concerning the basic causes – to make this settlement lasting and long run, we have to eradicate the first trigger to think about all official issues of Russia. That is been Russia’s start line and it has been the sticking level all through this entire course of.
For Putin to face on that stage alongside Trump and have the arrogance to articulate that tells me that that resonates with Trump, and Putin is welded to that as an ongoing place – a place which is unacceptable to Ukraine.
When it comes to Trump, he was speaking up the assembly, known as it very productive. We’ve not fairly acquired there, he stated. There is no deal till there is a deal.
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He spoke about how he was going to name NATO, Zelenskyy, and it was a particularly productive assembly, he stated – accentuating the optimistic, however in there was the damaging. He stated there are lots of factors that we comply with, however many factors but to be agreed – some not important, one most vital.
After all, the primary query would have been, had they taken questions, effectively what’s probably the most important stumbling block? And what are you going to do about it? Are you with him on that? And if you happen to’re not, what are the results
So frankly, if each these males, each large beasts on this battle, the 2 people most influential, if they’re each welded to Russia’s headline ask, what Russia has wished all alongside all through this, then I’ve to say there might be pessimism across the prospect of taking this any additional.
I am not fairly certain what the response is that Trump expects in Ukraine and in European capitals, but it surely may be a really tough telephone name. Elsewhere in that dialogue or these two separate statements, we acquired a way, I believed, of Putin the participant, how he has succeeded in reeling in Donald Trump and fascinating with him as an previous pal – that is the way it very a lot appeared, the previous pal that he is invited again to Moscow.
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Key moments from Trump-Putin information convention
‘A dictator using alongside probably the most highly effective man on this planet’
Donald Trump landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with the aspiration of departing a number of hours later hailed as a peacemaker and a deal dealer, says US correspondent Martha Kelner.
As a substitute he goes again to Washington having let a world pariah again in from the chilly and seemingly obtained treasured little in return.
If Putin pitched up on the tarmac of most of the world’s airports, he may, in concept, be instantly handcuffed. This, in any case, is a person wished by the Worldwide Felony Court docket for alleged conflict crimes, together with for the alleged abduction of Ukrainian kids.
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As a substitute, the pink carpet was, fairly actually, rolled out for him in Anchorage. A flypast was organized, that includes F-35 fighter jets, the very planes which might be commonly scrambled to intercept Russian plane working off the coast of Alaska. Varied army members lined as much as salute him.
Then got here probably the most shocking second of all. Alongside Trump, Putin climbed within the Beast, the US president’s closely armoured limousine. A dictator, who invaded a sovereign nation three-and-a-half years in the past and has been in isolation ever since, using alongside probably the most highly effective man on this planet on a US army base.
No marvel he was grinning within the again seat.
Learn Martha’s full evaluation right here.
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‘Putin spoke as if he was the host’
“It was one of the most unusual press conferences, that I’ve attended,” says Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett, who travelled with the Russian delegation to Alaska. “And that says something because I’ve been to all of Vladimir Putin’s recent ones. And those are very unusual.
“In the beginning, they stated they agreed on many factors, however we do not know what these are. We had been advised it could be a joint press convention, but it surely wasn’t. There have been no questions. That should be the primary and solely time that Donald Trump has not taken any questions from the press. And that is in all probability as a result of Vladimir Putin made {that a} situation – he usually does at press conferences.
“Donald Trump has said first he has to take what has been agreed to the Ukrainians, to NATO, to get sign off. But I thought what was really interesting was the fact that Vladimir Putin was the first person to speak at the press conference. It was as if he was the host rather than Donald Trump.
“And he stated that he welcomed Donald Trump like a neighbour once more, form of cementing this concept that he was the one in cost right here, he was the one calling the pictures. And though the banner behind him, the slogan, stated ‘Pursuing Peace’, it felt like he was pursuing one thing else right here. He was pursuing higher bilateral relations with the US, as a result of that is the very first thing he talked about.
“He talked up the common shared history between these two countries. He talked about the need to repair bilateral relations because they’ve plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War. And there was lots of flattery for Donald Trump’s efforts to find peace.
“However we nonetheless do not know what has been agreed right here. Putin stated the foundation causes of the battle nonetheless must be resolved. That means that each one of Russia’s pink traces nonetheless stay, that it would not need NATO to broaden any additional east. It desires Ukraine to comply with everlasting neutrality, desires limits on its armed forces. It principally sees Ukraine as a buffer state in between Russia and NATO. And that time period ‘root trigger’ suggests all of these calls for nonetheless stand.
“So it doesn’t look like Vladimir Putin has made any concessions, despite Donald Trump claiming that many points have been agreed upon over there.”
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US troopers cleansing the pink carpet. Pic: AP
‘Pink carpet remedy sticks within the craw for Ukrainians’
Our worldwide affairs editor Dominic Waghorn, in Kyiv, gauged the Ukrainian response to Putin’s arrival – and says persons are livid on the pink carpet welcome prolonged by the Trump workforce.
Photographs of US troopers on their knees, unfurling the pink carpet on the steps of the Russian chief’s airplane, have been going viral, he reviews.
Social media has been lit up with fury, anger, and disgust, he says. There are alternative ways of welcoming a world chief to any such occasion, and Trump has gone all out to offer an enormous welcome to Putin, which is sticking within the craw of Ukrainians.
