The Russian wire service, TASS, has direct access to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is their reporting.
MOSCOW, August 16, /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin has called his visit to Alaska, where he met with US President Donald Trump, timely and useful.
“We discussed practically all tracks of our cooperation, but first of all, of course, we talked about a possible resolution of the Ukrainian crisis on a fair basis,” Putin said
“I would like to immediately note that the visit was timely and very useful,” he said at a meeting with the leadership of the presidential staff, the government, the State Duma, government ministries and departments following Russian-American summit talks, Putin said. “We discussed practically all tracks of our cooperation, but first of all, of course, we talked about a possible resolution of the Ukrainian crisis on a fair basis.”
On August 15, Putin and Trump met at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Alaska.
Their talks lasted approximately three hours, including a one-on-one conversation in the American leader’s limousine en route to the main negotiation venue, as well as a subsequent small-group discussion involving three participants on either side.
The Russian delegation included presidential aide Yury Ushakov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio and presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff represented the American side.
In a statement to the media following the talks, Putin said that the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict was the main topic of the summit.
The Russian leader also called for turning the page in bilateral relations and resuming cooperation, and invited Trump to Moscow.
For his part, Trump announced progress in the talks, but noted that the parties had not managed to reach an agreement on everything.
TASS, the Russian news agency (The Mass Media Registration Certificate No. 03247 was issued on April 2, 1999 by the State Press Committee of the Russian Federation).
