The Alaska summit

Aug 16, 2025

IN BRIEF: ’10 out of 10′: What is known about three-hour summit between Putin, Trump

The two leaders refrained from answering questions and then briefly conversed on their feet

ANCHORAGE /Alaska/, August 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump have concluded their meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. They spoke for nearly three hours in the presence of their foreign ministers and aides.Then, Putin and Trump made statements to the media. They refrained from answering questions and then briefly conversed on their feet. Afterwards, Putin laid flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots buried in Anchorage and flew back to Russia. Putin’s first visit to the US in ten years lasted just over five hours.TASS has compiled the main information known about the summit at this moment.

Start of summit

The Russian leader’s plane landed at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at 10:54 a.m. local time (6:54 p.m. GMT). The welcoming ceremony on the airfield began at 11:10 a.m. local time (7:10 p.m. GMT).

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by Kyle Anzalone | August 15, 2025 at 4:59 pm ET

Following a three-hour meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump, the leaders delivered brief statements at a press conference, stating that the talks were productive and constructive.

Putin spoke first, telling the press that the talks were in a “constructive atmosphere of mutual respect. We had very thorough negotiations.” He added that he hoped European governments and Ukraine would receive the agreements made with Trump “constructively” and that they would not interfere with the progress.

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The Russian leader also blamed former US President Joe Biden for starting the war in Ukraine and argued that the invasion would not have happened if Trump had been the president. Trump has often claimed the conflict in Ukraine was Biden’s war, and he could have prevented the war from breaking out.

Putin noted that before the start of the war in 2022, Moscow sent Washington a proposal that would have stopped the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A core issue for the Kremlin was the growing ties between NATO and Ukraine. However, the Biden administration refused to negotiate on this point, and Putin ordered the invasion.

The Russian President said that during the Biden administration, US and Russian relations hit a post-Cold War low point. Putin expressed hope that the summit would be the start of the process to repair the ties and resolve the Ukrainian crisis.

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