Putin admits no agreements with Trump in Anchorage
Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump (Photo: Getty Images)
During the meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Anchorage, no agreements were signed regarding the end of the war in Ukraine, states Vladimir Putin in an interview with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin.
What Putin said about the "spirit of Anchorage"
Putin stated that the meeting in Alaska did not result in the signing of concrete agreements, and that the understandings remained only at the level of talks.
"Nobody signed anything, but we discussed certain possibilities for ending the conflict in Ukraine, and the compromises that were discussed were precisely those proposals that were put forward by the American side to us," stated the Kremlin chief.
According to him, American negotiators asked the Russian side to make several compromises, and Moscow allegedly agreed to some of them.
However, no legal or formal codification of the so-called "spirit of Anchorage" ever materialised.
Speculation regarding secret agreements between the US and Russia was dispelled several days ago. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a definitive answer on the results of the Trump-Putin talks, categorically denying any agreements on Ukraine's fate.
According to Rubio, at the Anchorage summit, there were only proposals, not agreements. He emphasised that the American side did make proposals to end the war, but none of them materialised into a document or an agreed plan.
Earlier, the Kremlin was deeply outraged by the sharp reversal in the Trump administration's support for Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov publicly demanded that the US define its position and explain the abandonment of backroom deals against the backdrop of new joint statements by the White House and French President Emmanuel Macron.
