The media called the Putin-Trump summit a political victory for Russia

The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Donald Trump was a political victory for the Russian Federation. This was announced on August 20 by the British portal UnHerd.

"The summit was a political victory. Putin's acceptance by Trump demonstrated the failure of the Western strategy to isolate Russia and damage its economy," the publication says.

As the columnist of the article notes, the talks between the two leaders in Alaska have become indirect evidence that the West has actually lost the confrontation with Russia.

Place. Meeting: how the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska started

The world's media celebrate the warm welcome, Europe and Ukraine are worried, and both delegations are ready for a detailed conversation.

The meeting between Putin and Trump took place on August 15 in Anchorage, Alaska. Following the meeting, the Russian president noted the desire of his colleague from the United States to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. Trump, in turn, shared that the negotiations went very well, and called the summit in Alaska wonderful.

On August 19, Lavrov confirmed that Russia was not abandoning any negotiation formats on Ukraine, either bilateral or trilateral. Moscow is interested in a serious, expert-level approach, starting from which it is possible to go through all the necessary steps step by step to prepare for the next summits, he said. On the same day, Trump announced the beginning of the search for a place for talks between Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

At the same time, the American leader said that if successful negotiations were held within the framework of a trilateral meeting, there was a "good chance" to end the conflict. At the same time, he noted that he favored a preliminary meeting between Putin and Zelensky without him.

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