Putin, Trump and Alaska
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The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.
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Putin agreed to let US, Europe offer NATO-style security protections for Ukraine, Trump envoy says
Steve Witkoff says Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate.
The US president said a peace agreement would be better than a "mere" ceasefire, hours after summit with Putin that produced little.
Viewers of Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska this week would be reasonable to wonder whether they had traveled back to 1938, says Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza. "If there is one clear lesson from history,
Mike Pence calls for Donald Trump to demand secondary sanctions on Russia after Alaska summit shifts focus from Ukraine ceasefire to broader peace deal.
One key party who will not be in attendance Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump said Thursday he hopes the summit will lead to a second meeting that would include Zelenskyy.
Russia already controls a fifth of Ukraine, including about three-quarters of Donetsk province, which it first entered in 2014.
In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump.