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The much-anticipated summit<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After about 2 1\/2 hours of talks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson<\/a> in Anchorage, the two men appeared before reporters for what had been billed as a joint news conference \u2014 but they took no questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had an extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to, there are just a very few that are left,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are key takeaways from the summit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A warm welcome underscoring the friendly Trump-Putin relationship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Putin got a red carpet welcome and even rode in Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019t have happened had he won the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that would have been the case,\u201d the Russian leader said, a comment sure to please Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump touts progress but concedes there was no deal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trump had gone into the meeting hoping to get Putin to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine \u2014 or at least a commitment from Russia to enter into negotiations to reach one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Trump conceded that \u201cwe haven\u2019t quite got there\u201d and said he would be conferring with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO leaders about next steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe we had a very productive meeting,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t quite got there, but we\u2019ve made some headway. So, there\u2019s no deal until there\u2019s a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a subsequent conversation with Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel, Trump again offered no details on his discussions with Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With diplomatic progress creeping along, time is on Putin\u2019s side<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amid drawn-out diplomatic moves to end the war, time is appears to be on Putin\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin praised Trump for the \u201cfriendly\u201d tone of the talks \u2014 Trump said nothing publicly about the killing of Ukrainian civilians in Moscow\u2019s attacks \u2014 and for \u201cunderstanding that Russia has its own national interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin said Moscow and Washington should \u201cturn the page,\u201d with relations having sunk to the lowest point since the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201closing their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor three years, they talked about Russia\u2019s isolation, and today they saw the red carpet being rolled out to greet the Russian president in the United States,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were no details and no questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Both men said the talks were \u201cproductive\u201d but the lack of any announcement of solid achievements was revealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news conference ended up being less than 15 minutes of rather standard diplomatic comments \u2014 and gave no indication that any concrete results were achieved \u2014 and offered little departure from their previous comments on the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cfeel-out meeting,\u201d but he had also floated the idea of bringing Zelenskyy to Alaska for a subsequent, three-way meeting if things went well. It\u2019s unclear what comes next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writers Katie Marie Davies, Dasha Litvinova and Michelle L. Price contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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