- Title: Russia's Putin departs Alaska after meeting Trump
- Date: 16th August 2025
- Summary: JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 15, 2025) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) VEHICLE CARRYING RUSSIA’S PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ARRIVING/ TARMAC VEHICLE PARKING IN FRONT OF PLANE RUSSIAN PLANE ON TARMAC PUTIN WALKING UP STAIRS TO PLANE, WAVING TOWARDS MEDIA, AND BOARDING PLANE VARIOUS OF PLANE CARRYING PUTIN ON TARMAC PLANE CARRYING PUTIN PLANE CARRYING PUT
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- Keywords: ALASKA CEASEFIRE DEAL PUTIN RUSSIA SUMMIT TRUMP UKRAINE WAR ZELENSKIY
- Location: JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, UNITED STATES
- City: JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,North America
- Reuters ID: LVA001761115082025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Russia's President Vladimir Putin departed Alaska on Friday (August 15) after meeting U.S. President Donald Trump for nearly three hours of direct talks.
During brief remarks to reporters, the two leaders said they had made progress on unspecified issues, but they offered no details and took no questions.
It was not immediately clear whether the talks had produced meaningful steps toward a ceasefire in the deadliest conflict in Europe in 80 years, a goal that Trump had set at the outset.
In brief remarks, Putin said he expected Ukraine and its European allies to accept the results of the U.S.-Russia negotiation constructively and not try to "disrupt the emerging progress."
"I expect that today's agreements will become a reference point, not only for solving the Ukrainian problem, but will also launch the restoration of business-like, pragmatic relations between Russia and the United States," Putin said.
There was no immediate reaction from Kyiv.
The anticlimactic end to the closely watched summit was in stark contrast to the pomp and circumstance with which it began. When Putin arrived at an Air Force base in Alaska, a red carpet awaited him, where Trump greeted Putin warmly as U.S. military aircraft flew overhead.
For Putin, the summit - the first between him and a U.S. president since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 - was already a big win, regardless of its outcome. He can portray the meeting as evidence that years of Western attempts to isolate Russia have unravelled and that Moscow is retaking its rightful place at the high table of international diplomacy.
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