Key takeaways from the Trump-Putin summit

The much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin began with a warm welcome and a flyover by screaming jets at a U.S. military base in Alaska but ended with a thud Friday after they conceded that they had failed to reach any agreements on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war .

After about 2 1/2 hours of talks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, the two men appeared before reporters for what had been billed as a joint news conference — but they took no questions.

“We had an extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to, there are just a very few that are left,” Trump said. “We didn’t get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.”

Putin, welcomed into the U.S. after being shunned by Western allies since early 2022 for ordering the invasion of Ukraine, thanked Trump for hosting the meeting and suggested with a chuckle that the next time the two sit down it could be in Moscow.

Here are key takeaways from the summit:

A warm welcome underscoring the friendly Trump-Putin relationship

Putin got a red carpet welcome and even rode in Trump’s presidential limousine from the tarmac to the summit venue. There, the pair were joined by two of their top aides: Secretary of State and national security adviser Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff for Trump and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and national security adviser Yuri Ushakov for Putin.

Putin, who spoke first after the meeting concluded, lauded the historical relationship between the United States, Russia and the former Soviet Union, recalling joint missions conducted by the two countries during World War II.

He said the U.S. and Russia share values, a standard talking point for Russian officials when trying to woo Trump and his aides. Putin also noted that Trump has frequently said the Ukraine war wouldn’t have happened had he won the 2020 election.

“I think that would have been the case,” the Russian leader said, a comment sure to please Trump.

However, there is no indication and no way to prove that Moscow would have acted differently toward Ukraine had Democrat Joe Biden not been elected.

Trump touts progress but concedes there was no deal

Trump had gone into the meeting hoping to get Putin to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine — or at least a commitment from Russia to enter into negotiations to reach one.

Instead, Trump conceded that “we haven’t quite got there” and said he would be conferring with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO leaders about next steps.

Trump said he and Putin had made some significant progress toward the goal of ending the conflict but gave no details on what that entailed and had to acknowledge that they had been unable to bridge substantial gaps.

“I believe we had a very productive meeting,” Trump said. “We haven’t quite got there, but we’ve made some headway. So, there’s no deal until there’s a deal.”

In a subsequent conversation with Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel, Trump again offered no details on his discussions with Putin.

With diplomatic progress creeping along, time is on Putin’s side

Amid drawn-out diplomatic moves to end the war, time is appears to be on Putin’s side. That gives a leg up to Russian forces, who have used their larger numbers to slowly grind down defenses in eastern Ukraine 3 1/2 years into the conflict.

Putin got a pleasant reception from the leader of the free world on U.S. soil and walked away hours later without either providing details on what they discussed, whether a ceasefire was any closer to reality or what the next steps would be.

Putin praised Trump for the “friendly” tone of the talks — Trump said nothing publicly about the killing of Ukrainian civilians in Moscow’s attacks — and for “understanding that Russia has its own national interests.”

Putin said Moscow and Washington should “turn the page,” with relations having sunk to the lowest point since the Cold War.

Putin appearing in the U.S. for the first time in 10 years was celebrated as a sign that Moscow was no longer a pariah on the global stage. In a social media post, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told followers that the Western press would be on the verge of “losing their minds.”

“For three years, they talked about Russia’s isolation, and today they saw the red carpet being rolled out to greet the Russian president in the United States,” she said.

There were no details and no questions

Both men said the talks were “productive” but the lack of any announcement of solid achievements was revealing.

The news conference ended up being less than 15 minutes of rather standard diplomatic comments — and gave no indication that any concrete results were achieved — and offered little departure from their previous comments on the war in Ukraine.

Trump has made it a feature of his second term to parry questions from reporters in front of world leaders, but in the clearest sign of his disappointment, the president abruptly cut short his plans to take questions.

Trump had gone into the summit saying here was a 25% chance that the summit would fail and that it was meant to be a “feel-out meeting,” but he had also floated the idea of bringing Zelenskyy to Alaska for a subsequent, three-way meeting if things went well. It’s unclear what comes next.

Associated Press writers Katie Marie Davies, Dasha Litvinova and Michelle L. Price contributed to this report.

备受瞩目的美国总统唐纳德·特朗普和俄罗斯领导人弗拉基米尔·普京之间的峰会于周五在阿拉斯加的一个美国军事基地以热烈的欢迎和喷气式飞机的鸣笛飞行拉开帷幕，但随后双方承认未能就如何结束俄乌战争达成任何协议，峰会以失败告终。

在安克雷奇埃尔门多夫-理查森联合基地进行了大约 2 个半小时的会谈后，两人出现在记者面前，举行了一场联合新闻发布会——但他们没有接受任何提问。

特朗普说：“我们举行了一次非常有成效的会议，达成了许多共识，只剩下极少数问题尚未解决。我们没能达成目标，但我们很有可能最终实现目标。”

自 2022 年初下令入侵乌克兰以来，普京一直受到西方盟友的冷落。此次访问美国，普京感谢特朗普主持会晤，并笑着表示，两人下次会面可以在莫斯科举行。

以下是本次峰会的主要结论：

热烈欢迎凸显了特朗普与普京之间的友好关系

普京受到了隆重的欢迎，甚至乘坐特朗普的总统专车从停机坪前往峰会会场。在那里，两人各自携两位高级助手会合：特朗普方面是国务卿兼国家安全顾问马可·卢比奥和特使史蒂夫·威特科夫，普京方面则是外交部长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫和国家安全顾问尤里·乌沙科夫。

会议结束后，普京首先发言，他赞扬了美国、俄罗斯和前苏联之间的历史关系，并回顾了两国在二战期间开展的联合行动。

他表示，美国和俄罗斯拥有共同的价值观，这是俄罗斯官员在试图拉拢特朗普及其助手时常用的说辞。普京还指出，特朗普曾多次表示，如果他赢得2020年大选，乌克兰战争就不会发生。

“我认为情况确实如此，”这位俄罗斯领导人说道，这番话肯定会让特朗普感到高兴。

然而，没有任何迹象或方法可以证明，如果民主党人乔·拜登没有当选，莫斯科对乌克兰采取的行动会有所不同。

特朗普吹嘘取得进展，但承认并未达成协议。

特朗普参加此次会晤的目的是希望普京同意与乌克兰停火，或者至少让俄罗斯承诺参与谈判以达成停火协议。

相反，特朗普承认“我们还没有完全达到目标”，并表示他将与乌克兰总统泽连斯基和北约领导人商讨下一步措施。

特朗普表示，他和普京在结束冲突的目标上取得了一些重大进展，但没有透露具体细节，并且不得不承认他们未能弥合实质性分歧。

特朗普说：“我认为我们进行了一次非常富有成效的会谈。我们还没有完全达成协议，但已经取得了一些进展。所以，在达成协议之前，一切都还没有定论。”

在随后与福克斯新闻频道肖恩·汉尼提的谈话中，特朗普再次没有透露他与普京会谈的任何细节。

随着外交进展缓慢推进，时间对普京有利。

在旷日持久的外交斡旋下，时间似乎站在普京一边。这为俄军提供了优势，他们在冲突持续三年半后，凭借人数上的优势，逐步瓦解了乌克兰东部的防御力量。

普京在美国本土受到了自由世界领导人的热情接待，几个小时后离开，既没有透露他们讨论了什么，也没有说明停火是否更接近现实，以及下一步措施是什么。

普京称赞特朗普会谈气氛“友好”——特朗普没有公开谈论莫斯科袭击中乌克兰平民的死亡——并“理解俄罗斯有自己的国家利益”。

普京表示，莫斯科和华盛顿应该“翻过这一页”，两国关系已跌至冷战以来的最低点。

普京十年来首次访美，被视为莫斯科不再是国际舞台上的弃儿的标志。俄罗斯外交部发言人玛丽亚·扎哈罗娃在社交媒体上发文称，西方媒体“简直要疯了”。

“三年来，他们一直在谈论俄罗斯的孤立，而今天，他们却看到美国铺开红地毯迎接俄罗斯总统，”她说。

没有细节，也没有问题

两人都表示会谈“富有成效”，但没有任何实质性成果公布，这很耐人寻味。

新闻发布会最终持续不到 15 分钟，内容都是些相当标准的外交辞令——没有迹象表明取得了任何具体成果——而且与他们之前对乌克兰战争的评论几乎没有任何不同。

特朗普在其第二个任期内，经常在世界各国领导人面前回避记者的提问，但最明显的失望之举是，总统突然取消了回答问题的计划。

特朗普在峰会前曾表示，峰会失败的概率为25%，并称此次峰会旨在“试探性会晤”。但他同时也提出，如果进展顺利，将邀请泽连斯基前往阿拉斯加举行后续的三方会晤。目前尚不清楚接下来会发生什么。

美联社记者凯蒂·玛丽·戴维斯、达莎·利特维诺娃和米歇尔·L·普莱斯对本报道亦有贡献。