The meeting in Alaska “should open a concrete road towards a right peace and a substantial debate among leaders in a trilateral format. It is time to put an end to war and Russia must take the necessary measures. We count on America. We are ready, as always, to work ». He had said Zelensky on X just before the Anchorage meeting began. Zelensky who will be a guest of the White House on Monday in the afternoon. “He will come to Washington, the oval studio,” announced Trump. And, “If everything goes well, we will set a meeting with President Putin. Potentially, millions of lives will be saved”: so the President of the United States on his Social Truth.
Plans and hopes chase each other a few hours after a summit, the one among the American and Russian presidents, defined as “disgusting, shameful and, after all, useless”: so the Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Independent judges it in an editorial that opens the site, remembering the treatment with all the honors reserved for the ZAR in contrast with the humiliation reserved in Volodymyr Zelensky in February, when he suffered a “ambush” to the White House. The lesson that draws it, writes, is that “Putin does not make agreements, he takes” and that’s it. «Trump – reads Kyiv Independent – did not get what he wanted. But Putin? He certainly yes. From the moment he got off the plane on US soil, the Russian dictator was radiant. No longer an international pariah, he was finally obtaining acceptance and respect for the leader of the free world. The predecessor of Trump once had called Putin ‘a killer’; Trump instead offered him a welcome from King. Trump welcomed Putin with a red carpet, warm handshakes, a flyer of US bombers and a limousine ride on the rear seat. “The friendly attitude – reads again – was in clear contrast with the hostile welcome that Trump had reserved for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the oval study six months earlier. The Ukrainian president suffered a public humiliation. The Russian one was spoiled. Both episodes were shameful. “Trump – continues the comment of the Ukrainian newspaper – seemed to believe that a warm encounter could have appeased Putin and make a fire more likely. But there is a lesson that Trump has not yet learned: the Russian leader does not make agreements, but takes. He takes what is offered to him, and then still takes, and continues to take until he is stopped by force. This is the Russian art of the agreement ».