17.08.2025, Aleksandrovskoye.
An American B-2 bomber flew over the airport accompanied by four F-35 fighter jets.
On the night of August 15-16, Moscow time, the leaders of Russia and the United States held closed-door talks that lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes. The summit in Anchorage was the first face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in six years.
The meeting began with the presidents making a spectacular joint appearance on the red carpet at Anchorage Airport. An American B-2 bomber flew over the airport, accompanied by four F-35 fighter jets. As Fox News noted, “two months earlier, this stealthy aircraft dropped bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear facilities.”
After the meeting, the presidents went to the Elmendorf-Richardson military base. At the invitation of the American president, both leaders got into Trump’s armored limousine, where they communicated without interpreters.
The meeting was organized at short notice and many things changed along the way. For example, on the eve of the meeting, the head-to-head talks between Putin and Trump, initiated by the American side, turned into a three-to- three format, possibly to prevent the current talks from turning into another “Russiagate.” In addition to the leaders of the two countries, the negotiations were attended by Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the Russian side, and US Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the American side.
It was reported that the leaders of the countries would make opening remarks before going into negotiations. However, the Russian and US presidents did not make any statements before the start of the meeting, citing the closed nature of the negotiations, although the buzz from journalists’ questions in the hall was such that it caused concern for the condition of the press representatives’ vocal cords.
After closed-door talks, Putin and Trump, as promised, held a press conference.
Putin began the press conference by discussing the neighborly relationship between the two countries. This neighborhood is not only geographical, but also historical.
“It sounds very neighborly, in my opinion, in a good way. We are separated only by the Bering Strait, and even there are two islands, with only four kilometers between the Russian and American islands. We are close neighbors, that is a fact,” Putin said.
Near the border between Russia and the US is the day change line, where “you can literally step from yesterday into tomorrow.”
He recalled fragments of shared history, including during the Great Patriotic War: “During World War II, it was in Alaska that the legendary air route for the delivery of combat aircraft and other equipment under the Lend-Lease agreement began.”
The Russian president emphasized the importance for Russia of eliminating fundamental threats to the country’s national security. “I have said many times that for Russia, the events in Ukraine are linked to fundamental threats to our national security,” Putin noted.
He recalled the need to eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis and take into account all of Russia’s requirements, as well as restore a fair balance of security in Europe and the world.
“For the Ukrainian settlement to be stable and long-lasting, all the root causes of the crisis, which have been discussed repeatedly, must be eliminated, all of Russia’s legitimate concerns must be taken into account, and a fair balance in the field of security in Europe and the world as a whole must be restored,” the president added.
Unlike the Russian leader, Trump did not mention the cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States during World War II. He just said that the talks were productive, but a full understanding was not reached.
Trump confirmed that he intends to make a series of calls to allies in the EU and NATO, as well as to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. According to spokeswoman Caroline Levitt, Trump had a lengthy conversation with Zelensky during the flight, with the participation of five European leaders, including the French president and the NATO secretary general.
“There’s no deal until there’s a deal. I will call up NATO in a little while. I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate, and I’ll, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell him about today’s meeting. It’s ultimately up to them.” Trump said after the meeting.
Trump’s conversation with Zelensky and European leaders was not easy, as Axios journalist Barak Ravid later reported. Zelensky plans to visit Washington on August 18 to meet with Trump.
In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, which Trump gave immediately after the talks ended, he said that Biden had managed to do something unthinkable — bring Russia and China closer together. The results of the talks do not suggest that Trump has managed to turn this process back.
The summit in Alaska ended as it was bound to end — with nothing. The fundamental threat to Russia’s existence has not disappeared. No one announced the end of Western aid to Kiev. The US continues to arm Ukraine, supplying it with satellite data and mobile internet. Ultimately, Russia does not care who pays for these weapons — Ukraine itself, the US, or Europe. “Good neighbors” do not behave this way.
At the insistence of the US, the EU is increasing military spending and hastily building ammunition factories. For example, the German military concern Rheinmetall, which opened a factory in Hungary, a country supposedly opposed to military support for Ukraine, has already reported a reduction in the cost of ammunition production.
No one is going to turn Ukraine into a peaceful, neutral, non-aligned country that has rejected neo-Nazism and respects the rights of the Russian population. In such conditions, any “truce” with neo-Nazi Kiev is a gift to those who want to destroy us. The Russian authorities will not agree to this.
However, to resolve the fundamental issue of Russia’s safety, the Russian leaders need much more than to come to negotiations wearing a sweater with the inscription “USSR,” as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov did. At a minimum, it needs science, military-industrial complex, army, machine tool manufacturing, upbringing, education, and real social elevators comparable to those of the USSR.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
