Five fast food from the meeting

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

But with no ceasefire and an invitation to Moscow, the three -hour meeting between the two leaders resulted in more questions than answers.

Here are five main meals from the Alaska summit.

When President Vladimir Putin returned to the World Theater on Friday, the sky was in Alaska cloudy. Waiting for a red carpet scattered across the joint base runway, Elsindorf-Richardson was US President Donald Trump.

With Putin approaching, Trump applied. The two leaders shook hands warmly and smiled.

It was a great moment for Putin-a leader that most Western countries have avoided since Moscow launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since then, his international travel has been largely limited to the friendly nations of the Russian Union, such as North Korea and Larros.

The fact that the Alaska summit occurred at all was a victory for Putin. But this welcome would have exceeded the Kremlin’s dreams. Within six short months, Putin moved from being an outlet in the eyes of the West to a welcome to the American soil like a partner and a friend.

To form it, in an apparently unlimited moment, Putin decided to accept the elevator to the air base in the armored Limozine of Trump instead of driving in the Moscow presidential state car.

When the car withdrew, the cameras rose to Putin, sitting in the back seat and laughing.

During the 25 years as a Russian president, Putin achieved full control of the media, crushing press freedoms and replacing information with advertising. Inside Russia, it was not often – if any – against non -friendly correspondents.

However, just minutes after landing in Alaska, a journalist shouted at him: “Will you stop killing civilians?” If the question disturbed him, this does not appear, and instead it appears to ignore and transform his outlook.

During a somewhat short and chaotic picture, more questions were shouted, including one in the Russian language about whether Putin would be ready to meet President Voludmir Zellinsky at a triple top. Once again, there was no clear reaction from the Russian president behind a hidden smile.

The world’s media has gathered in the room with Putin and Trump to expect a press conference; Instead, the two leaders provided data and did not take any questions from the correspondents.

Unusually, Putin was the first to speak. He praised the “constructive atmosphere of mutual respect” for “neighborhood” talks, and then began in an intense history of the Alaska past as Russian lands.

As Putin spoke, Trump stood silent. This was a few minutes before the Russian President mentioned what he called the “situation in Ukraine” – apparently the catalyst for the summit. When he did so, it was supposed to mention that although an unspecified “agreement” had been reached, the “root causes” of the conflict had to be eliminated before achieving peace.

The phrase will have stopped the warning bells in KYIV and beyond. Since the beginning of the war, it has become an acronym of a series of intractable demands and the maximum that Putin says on the way to a ceasefire.

It includes recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Ukrainian regions of the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporesvia, Khairsson and Ukraine agree to highlight, neutrality, any foreign military participation and new elections. Basically, it amounts to the unacceptable surrender to Kyiv, but clearly-even after three and a half years of bloody conflict-is still of utmost importance to Moscow.

However, it was clear that there was no deal.

Unusually – given the context and the top hypothesis – when Trump came to speak, Ukraine did not mention the possibility of a ceasefire once. The closest thing to refer to the conflict was saying that “five, six or seven thousand people per week” were killed and indicated that Putin also wanted to see the end of the bloodshed.

Trump usually seems to have less than Putin. His statement was noticeable regarding his briefing and unusual relatives – but primarily because of his ambiguity. “There were many points that we agreed to,” Trump said, adding that “the great progress” was made in a “very fruitful meeting.”

But he did not share any details and did not show that any concrete steps were taken towards resolving the Ukrainian conflict. No major agreements or triple meeting have been announced with President Zelinski.

– And for Moscow’s relief – no mention of any “severe consequences” has threatened Trump to follow if a ceasefire is not reached.

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

After that, despite mystery, he added: “But we have a good opportunity to get there.”

The summit may have failed to make any concrete progress towards peace in Ukraine, but has strengthened the rapprochement between Russia and the United States.

Pictures of the presidents traveled again, repeatedly and a smile on social media on social media – as well as pictures of American soldiers kneeling while launching the red carpet at the foot of Putin’s plane.

Before the conclusion of his statement, Putin referred to one of the repeated conversation points of the American President – that the conflict in Ukraine had never begun if Trump was in power.

Despite Trump’s assertion of “great progress”, nothing was revealed about the material at the Alaska summit – however the two leaders left the door open to another meeting, this time on Russian soil. “Maybe I will see you again very soon,” Trump said.

When approaching a joint statement, where he was forced to make any promises, concessions, or lack of concessions, Putin may have felt enough to storm the English language – which is rare. A muffled laugh, looked at Trump and said: “The next time in Moscow.”

“Oh, this is interesting,” Trump said. “I will get a little heat on it, but I can see it happen.”