Putin admits no agreement was reached with Trump to end Ukraine war

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that there was no deal with President Trump to end Moscow’s more than four-year-long war in Ukraine, after Kremlin officials insisted such an agreement was made between the two leaders last August during a summit in Alaska.

“There were indeed no agreements reached in Anchorage,” Putin told a state television reporter on Sunday.

“Nobody signed anything, but we discussed certain possibilities for ending the conflict in Ukraine, and the compromises that were discussed were precisely those proposals that were put forward by the American side to us,” the Russian leader added.

The admission comes after Russia for months insisted the Alaska meeting was a diplomatic turning point in the war in Ukraine, with a path to end the fighting mapped out at the gathering but stalled in its implementation due to Ukrainian resistance.

Putin at the time declared the so-called agreement will “pave the path toward peace in Ukraine.” Trump, however, told reporters that the meeting was “extremely productive,” but “there’s no deal until there’s a deal.”

More recently, top Kremlin officials have accused the Trump administration of not honoring the supposed deal, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week suggesting that the summit was a “U.S. ploy to buy time to rearm the Kyiv regime.”

Lavrov also claimed Putin ⁠had signed on to a U.S. proposal.

But Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back, telling reporters that, “If there had been an agreement, we would have had an end of the war.”

He also pointed to Moscow’s lofty demands as a roadblock, noting “Russia wants the entirety of Donetsk to be turned over to them, among some other things.”

And French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this month said Trump had acknowledged during G-7 talks that Russia did not want peace in Ukraine.

Putin is under pressure as Ukraine appears to be gaining momentum on the battlefield in its grinding fight with Russia, regaining territory for the first time in years. The tide has been turning thanks in large part to Ukraine’s domination of drone warfare, which has outflanked Moscow’s forces.

Ukraine also has stepped up its drone attacks deep into Russian territory, on Tuesday declaring it hit one of Moscow’s largest satellite communication centers.

But the Russian leader appears prepared to fight on, saying on Sunday that the nation expects renewed U.S.-led peace talks only after the “hot phase” of the Iran war is resolved.

He also revealed Ukraine had offered “new proposals” to stop fighting in the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but said the offer is a distraction to allow Kyiv to replenish its forces.

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