Ukraine war briefing: ‘Up to Zelenskyy’ to reach ceasefire with Russia, says Trump after Putin summit

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Ukraine war briefing: ‘Up to Zelenskyy’ to reach ceasefire with Russia, says Trump after Putin summit - Lemmy.World

- Donald Trump has put the onus on Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to reach a ceasefire with Russia after the US leader held direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska on Friday. - Trump said the direct talks with Putin on Friday did not yield an agreement to pause the war in Ukraine, though he claimed “great progress” during the nearly three-hour-long summit - Putin, speaking through an interpreter, suggested the two leaders had hammered out “an understanding

So Trump failed. No surprise there, but at least he didn’t agree something with Putin that Zelenskyy wouldn’t agree to (as far as we know, anyway).

Putin & Trump road together here. That says it all

Trump and Putin share a car after they arrive in Alaska for talks on the Ukraine war - Lemmy.World

* From NBC on Reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1mr8ot9/oc_trump_and_putin_share_a_car_after_they_arrive/] Putin riding in the frickin Beast, are u fckn kidding me?

Reminder that the last time a Russian leader rode inside the presidential limo was Boris Yeltsin in 1991 with George HW Bush just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It’s now in reverse
Have you seen Lavrov’s CCCP shirt?

Yes, and for those out of the loop

yahoo.com/…/russian-foreign-minister-wears-cccp-2…

Russian foreign minister wears CCCP shirt to Alaska summit, a nod to Soviet nostalgia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wore a CCCP sweatshirt as he arrived in Alaska for the summit with President Trump. That is the Russian acronym for...

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