Trump Touts His Horn, But No Deal Was Reached With Putin

While President Donald Trump hailed his gathering pinch Vladimir Putin arsenic a awesome success, touting a bid deal, each news outlets reported that nan acme successful Alaska connected Friday ended without a ceasefire agreement, except, of course, for Fox News, which utilized words for illustration “historic” and “good progress” toward nan extremity of warfare successful Ukraine.

“A awesome and very successful time successful Alaska!” said Trump connected Truth Social successful nan aftermath of his brushwood pinch Putin. “The gathering went very well, arsenic did a late-night telephone telephone pinch President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and various European Leaders, including nan highly respected Secretary General of NATO ¨[Mark Rutte].” Trump said each those he said pinch aft nan meeting pinch his Russian counterpart “determined that nan champion measurement to extremity nan horrific warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine is to spell straight to a Peace Agreement, which would extremity nan war, and not a specified Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not clasp up.”

Trump and Zelensky to meet again successful Washington

Trump announced that Zelensky will meet pinch him connected Monday, August 18, astatine nan Oval Office, where, “if each useful out, we will past schedule a gathering pinch President Putin. Potentially, millions of people’s lives will beryllium saved.” However, Putin made nary mention of gathering Zelenskiy erstwhile speaking to reporters. His aide, Yuri Ushakov, told nan Russian authorities news agency TASS that a three-way acme had not been discussed. Igor Kastyukevich, a legislator from nan Kherson Region, told TASS, “Throughout nan full typical subject operation, Russia has ne'er changed its position, and now 3rd parties are not only fresh to perceive to it, but besides to talk its terms.”.

Kastyukevich besides said, ” By nan rhetoric of Trump, if Ukraine genuinely wants peace, arsenic it declares, it will person to make concessions. Moreover, Kiev must return existent steps that are acceptable not only to Kiev, but chiefly to Russia.”

Putin ‘expects’ Zelensky to cede

Putin himself said that, to make a “settlement lasting and long-term, we request to destruct nan guidelines causes of nan conflict” successful Ukraine. That means, according to BBC and respective different news outlets, that Russia is expecting Zelensky to cede to its demands that see Ukraine’s withdrawal from 4 regions partially occupied by Russia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, and springiness up its efforts to subordinate nan NATO subject alliance.

Zelensky has ruled retired ceding Russia immoderate territory, informing that it would only empower Moscow to equine different violative successful nan future.

Steve Rosenberg, BBC’s Russia Editor, said that nan Putin-Trump property convention was not a property convention because nary questions from reporters were allowed. And nan 2 presidents quickly near nan podium, arsenic did each their unit members.

Putin succeeded, Trump failed

“[Those are] Clear signs that erstwhile it comes to nan warfare successful Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump still person a awesome quality of opinion,” Rosenger said. He suggested that Putin near successfully, while Trump did not negociate to get what he said he was location to get: bid for Ukraine.

Trump told Fox News that, though “we did make a batch of progress,” “as acold arsenic I americium concerned, there’s nary woody until there’s nary deal”. He, however, said his proposal to Zelensky is to “make a deal”, which, fixed Russia’s unchanged demands, seems highly improbable.

For Trump, that Putin agreed nan warfare successful Ukraine would person ne'er happened had nan US president been successful agency was a important victory. Trump besides told Fox he would desist from caller sanctions connected Russia for now.

The Wall Street Journal wrote that, “The 2 leaders appeared to beryllium very friends for astir of their hours together successful Alaska, opening pinch a red-carpet greeting. However, that warmth seemed to evaporate astatine nan little property convention aft nan talks, wherever Trump appeared disappointment and tired.”

Russia made nary concessions

But while Trump seemed “frustrated and tired”, Russia has not stopped boasting really successful nan gathering was for them, “celebrating nan truth that nan Russian leader met his US counterpart without making concessions and now faces nary sanctions contempt rejecting Trump’s ceasefire demands,” nan Guardian wrote.

“The gathering proved that negotiations are imaginable without preconditions,” wrote erstwhile president Dmitry Medvedev connected Telegram. He added that nan acme showed that talks could proceed arsenic Russia wages warfare successful Ukraine.

Putin gave nothing, sewage everything

The Guardian besides quoted a personnel of nan Russian overseas argumentation team, who said connected information of remaining unnamed, that “Putin gave Trump nothing, but still sewage everything he wanted. Trump yet listened to his demands.”

While Trump mightiness beryllium trying to rotation nan acme successful his favour, Russia insists that “the tasks of nan typical subject cognition (as Putin has called nan penetration of Ukraine) will beryllium accomplished either by subject aliases negotiated means,” wrote elder Russian lawmaker Andrei Klishas connected Telegram.

Trump ‘deserves nan Nobel Peace Prize’

Regardless of nan result and that he now “washes his hands, saying bid is now up to Ukraine and its European allies,  Trump believes he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, though he besides thinks he will not get it and that alternatively personification who writes a book astir him will triumph nan prestigious prize.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful July that Trump has “brokered, connected average, astir 1 bid woody aliases ceasefire per period during his six months successful office. It’s good past clip that President Trump was awarded nan Nobel Peace Prize.”