The meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska ended without significant results. The dictator again made ultimatums that Ukraine has previously rejected.

Despite the lack of an agreement on a ceasefire, US President Donald Trump called the meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which lasted almost three hours in a three-on-three format, went “very well”. In response, Putin offered to hold the next round of talks in Moscow, and invited Trump. The US leader said that the parties “agreed on a lot of points”, and the meeting opened prospects for ending the war through agreements on territories and security guarantees. Now, he added, the main burden of responsibility is shifting to the Ukrainian president. According to Trump, to end the war it is necessary to move to a peace agreement, not just a ceasefire.

The US president said in a telephone conversation with President Zelenskyy that Putin’s position remains unchanged: The Kremlin demands that Ukraine cede all of the Donbas to Russia, which the Ukrainian leader refused.

The Russian dictator’s proposal also excludes a ceasefire until a peace deal is reached, accompanied by the following demands:

1. Ukraine must withdraw its troops from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in exchange for Russia’s commitment to freeze the front line in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
2. Russia will return small areas of Ukrainian territory that it occupied in the northern Sumy and northeastern Kharkiv regions.
3. Recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea
4. Partial lifting of sanctions against Russia
5. Ukraine be banned from joining NATO, but Putin is ready to provide certain “security guarantees”.
6. The Russian language being given official status in some parts of Ukraine or throughout Ukraine, as well as free rights for the Russian Orthodox Church.

According to Trump, the primary objective of his meeting with Putin in Alaska was to organize a second summit – with Zelenskyy participating – in order to reach a peace deal.