The president of the United States, Donald Trump, could not ensure a high fire of the Ukraine War at a high -risk summit with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, but insisted on Saturday that he would now point to a total peace agreement to end the conflict.
Three hours of conversations between the White House and the Kremlin leaders in an Alaska Air Base did not produce progress, but Trump and European leaders said they wanted a new summit that includes the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky said that he will now go to Washington on Monday, while European leaders said they were ready to intensify the sanctions against Russia after Trump reported them at the summit and held their own prolonged conversations.
Trump remained optimistic about meeting Putin in a publication on his real social platform. “A very successful day in Alaska!” He proclaimed, added that European leaders supported their plan for a three -way meeting with Putin and Zelensky.
“It was determined by everything that the best way to end the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere agreement of cessation of fire, which often does not remain,” he added, confirming his meeting with Zelensky on Monday.
“If everything works, we will schedule a meeting with President Putin. Potentially, millions of people’s lives will be saved.”
After the summit, Trump spoke first with Zelensky, said the White House.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO general secretary Mark Rutte, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, joined the call, the authorities said.
The European leaders, who had been cautious to stay out of Alaska’s meeting, held their own conversations on Saturday and said they supported the proposed three -way summit.
“We are also ready to work with President Trump and President Zelensky for a trilateral summit with European support,” they said in a joint statement that added that the pressure must be maintained in Russia.
“While the murder in Ukraine continues, we are ready to maintain pressure on Russia. We will continue to strengthen the broader sanctions and economic measures to press Russia’s war economy until there is a fair and lasting peace,” they said.
Russia could not have a “veto” in Ukraine that joined the European Union or NATO, they added.
In a separate statement, Starmer praised Trump’s efforts to bring “the United States closer than ever to end Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.”
But Macron, writing in X, warned against what he said was the “well -documented trend of Russia not to maintain his own commitments.” He requested any future peace agreement to have “unwavering” security guarantees.
He also defended greater pressure on Russia until “a solid and lasting peace had been achieved. The European leader welcomed what they called “security guarantees” made by Trump without giving details.
A diplomatic source said AFP That Trump had offered Ukraine similar guarantees to NATO membership, but without joining the alliance.
The war, which has killed tens of thousands and devastated much of Ukraine, continued despite the summit. Ukraine announced that Russia had launched 85 attack drones and a ballistic missile during the night. Russia said he had taken two more villages in Ukraine.
Zelensky said Trump had exposed the “main points” of the summit and that he would go to the White House on Monday “to discuss all the details about the end of murder and war.”
Trump and Putin left their conversations on an air base of the Cold War era to offer warm words at a press conference, but did not give questions from journalists.
“We are not there yet, but we have progressed. There is no treatment until there is a deal,” Trump said.
He called the “extremely productive” meeting with “many points” of agreement, but did not offer details.
“There are only very few left; some are not so significant, one is probably the most significant,” Trump said without elaborating.
‘Next time in Moscow’
Putin also spoke in general terms of cooperation in the appearance of the joint press that lasted only 12 minutes.
“We hope that the understanding we have achieved … will search the peace in Ukraine,” Putin said.
When Trump reflected on a second meeting, Putin smiled and said in English: “Next time in Moscow.”
The former KGB agent tried to flatter Trump, who has expressed admiration for the Russian leader in the past.
Putin told Trump that he agreed with him that the Ukraine War, which Putin ordered, would not have happened if Trump were president instead of Joe Biden.
Trump, on the other hand, complained again about a “deception” that Russia intervened to help him in the 2016 elections, a finding backed by American intelligence.
Before the summit, Trump had warned about “serious consequences” if Russia did not accept the fire.
But when asked about those consequences during a Fox News Interview after the conversations, Trump said that “because of what happened today, I think I don’t have to think about that now.”
Putin warns Western allies
Trump, whose tone with Zelensky has changed since he rebuked the Ukrainian president in the White House in February, he said Fox that “now depends on President Zelensky to do it.”
Trump could not obtain the Russian agreement to bring Zelensky to Friday’s conversations.
But Zelensky, who has rejected suggestions that Ukraine resigned from the territory, said on Saturday that he supported US efforts.
“It is important that the United States force has an impact on the development of the situation,” he said.
Putin warned Ukraine and European countries that “do not believe any obstacle” and not “do not” try to interrupt this emerging progress through provocation or intrigues behind the scene. “
Trump invited Putin only one week and made sure there was a carefully choreographed drama for his first meeting in person since 2019.
The two leaders arrived at their respective presidential planes and descended in the asphalt of an air base, with Trump applauding when Putin appeared.
The American military power was on display with a stealth bomber B-2 flying above, since a journalist shouted audibably to Putin: “Will you stop killing civilians?”
Putin, without discouragement, smiled widely when Trump took the unusual step of escorting him to “the beast”, the safe presidential limousine of the United States, before a meeting in a room before a screen that said, in English alone, “pursuing peace.”
Putin smiled and joked with Russian reporters on the visit, a milestone for a leader who faces an arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court related to the Ukraine War, which has killed tens of thousands of people.
Profits on the battlefield
Russia, in recent days, has achieved profits on the battlefield that could strengthen Putin’s hand in any negotiation of high fire.
Although Ukraine announced that Putin flew, since he had resumed several villages, the Russian army claimed on Saturday the capture of Kolodyazi in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and Vorone in the neighboring region of Dnipropetrovsk.
Trump had insisted that he would be firm with Putin, after being criticized for appearing intense during a 2018 summit in Helsinki.
While traveling to Alaska, the White House announced that Trump had discarded a plan to see Putin alone and, on the other hand, held the conversations along with Secretary of State Framebio Rubio and his itinerant envoy Steve Witkoff.
Zelensky was not included and has rejected Trump’s pressure to deliver territory seized by Russia.
“It’s time to finish the war, and Russia must take the necessary steps. We are having the United States,” Zelensky said in a publication on social networks.
