The presidents of Russia - Vladimir Putin, and the US - Donald Trump, have agreed to negotiate further; Putin has stated that the conflict in Ukraine may end; Trump has understood that Russia is not the main obstacle to peace - these are some of the assessments of Russian media after yesterday's summit in the American city of Anchorage, in the state of Alaska, BTA writes.
Putin noted that the meeting was "neighborly warm", notes the "Izvestia" newspaper. The publication recalls that the last time the leaders of Russia and the US communicated live was in 2021 in Geneva, when the then US President Joe Biden was sitting in the other chair. The Kremlin leader has now stressed that he has established "good, direct contacts", "Izvestia" reports. In this regard, Putin mentioned the telephone conversations with the American president and the visits to Moscow by the White House special envoy Steve Witkoff, as well as the regular contacts between various departments of the two countries.
"Izvestia" draws attention to the fact that Putin has highlighted to the media Trump's desire to delve into the essence of the Ukrainian conflict and understand its causes. The Kremlin leader reminded that for Moscow the situation in Ukraine is related to the fundamental issues of the security of the Russian Federation, and Moscow has always considered the Ukrainian people to be fraternal.
"What is happening there is a tragedy and a great pain for Russia" are the words of the Russian president, which "Izvestia" brings to the fore.
"Next time in Moscow" - "Next time - in Moscow", written in English, is the leading headline in another Russian newspaper - "Kommersant". Russian experts give their assessments of the meeting in Alaska to the publication.
"My expectations were justified, because I didn't expect anything. The most likely outcome of the meeting was achieved - they agreed to negotiate further", Sergey Poletaev, analyst, co-founder and editor of the "Watfor" project, tells the publication. "There are two problems. First - Trump does not consider himself a party to the conflict and does not want to get involved in it, and Putin is of the opposite position - he is convinced that only Trump can make a principled decision to end the war. If the two have come to an agreement on this issue, things will work out from there. The second problem is the position of Europe and Ukraine, which are still determined to continue fighting. In my opinion, this problem can only be solved at the front," Poletaev says.
"I personally did not expect this meeting to solve the Ukrainian issue - it is only the core of the problem of European security," Professor from the national research institute "Higher School of Economics" Timofey Bordachev told "Kommersant". "Each of the countries - the American and the Russian - takes into account its own circumstances and limitations, which it cannot ignore. But despite this, the idea of "strategic defeat" and "isolation" was finally removed from the American agenda. of Russia", Bordachov believes in the context of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska.
Ilya Kramnik, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic Planning Research at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told "Kommersant" that the meeting has proven that at this stage a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine is impossible. "Now, obviously, the most difficult part is ahead: regardless of whether the negotiations between the presidents of Russia and the United States were fruitful or not, peace in Ukraine is possible only with the inclusion of the countries of the European Union in the solution to the problem. "However, this seems unthinkable at the moment, given the official position of both the EU as a whole and individual countries in the bloc," Kramnik concluded.
The state-run Russian news agency TASS highlighted Trump's assessment of the meeting - 10 out of 10. TASS noted that Putin laid flowers at the grave of Russian World War II pilots buried in Anchorage, and that overall, the Russian president's first visit to the United States in 10 years lasted a little over five hours.
"The meeting began with a face-to-face meeting in the US president's Cadillac limousine. They first looked into each other's eyes on the way to the main meeting venue at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base." in Anchorage, TASS notes.
TASS highlights Putin's words that it was necessary to "improve the situation" in Russia-US relations by "moving from confrontation to dialogue". The agency also draws attention to Trump's opinion that "tremendous progress" had been made in Alaska. At the same time, TASS points out that "the American media reacted with restraint" to the Trump-Putin meeting.
According to the Russian newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", Trump "perfectly understood that Russia is not the main obstacle to peace". According to the publication, the negotiations were actually "long, very long - 2 hours and 45 minutes, which is a record for both Putin and Trump". According to the publication, the meeting in Anchorage was "a huge victory for peace-seeking Russia".
"The Moscow Times" notes that although both Putin and Trump spoke of progress made after the talks, in practice they did not reach the peace agreement that the American president had hoped for. "Despite the red carpet and the honors, the two sides apparently failed to iron out their differences on exactly how to end the war," the media outlet summarizes.