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Everything about the two-hour Trump-Putin meeting, what did the two Presidents mainly agree on and why is the 'ball' for reaching an agreement in Zelensky's hands? What is the big issue that divides the two Presidents and what advice did Putin give Trump?
Donald Trump said it is up to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to secure a ceasefire agreement after the US president failed to reach one with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their meeting on Friday.
"Now it's up to President Zelensky to finish the deal," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity after the Alaska summit.
He added that "European nations need to get a little involved."
What you need to know:
The talks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, ended without an agreement after a two-and-a-half-hour closed-door session on Friday.
Trump announced, during his joint press conference with Putin, that “great progress” had been made, but acknowledged that “there’s no deal until there’s a deal” on the ceasefire.
The president added that he would rate the meeting a 10 out of 10 because he and Putin had gotten along very well, and said he was pulling back on Russian sanctions for the time being.
Putin and Trump were joined at the meeting by Secretary Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Witkoff on the U.S. side, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and political adviser Yury Ushakova on the Russian side.
Trump gave Putin a warm welcome as he landed at the base, with a red carpet, a friendly handshake and even a flyover by B-2 bombers and F-35 fighter jets.
Trump says he and Putin 'largely agreed' on territory swaps
· Donald Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he had revealed that he "mostly agreed" with Vladimir Putin regarding potential land swaps between Ukraine and Russia.
· "These are points that we negotiated and in fact, these are points that we largely agreed on."
· Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not invited to the summit, but he has previously made it clear that he is not willing to swap territory with Russia.
"Ukrainians will not give up their land to the occupier," Zelensky said in a video message in October.
Trump lifts sanctions on Russia after meeting with Putin
· Donald Trump has abandoned plans to impose sanctions on Russia, following his meeting with Vladimir Putin.
· Trump had threatened "severe consequences" if he and Putin were unable to agree on a ceasefire deal.
· However, on Friday, despite Trump leaving the Alaska summit without securing a peace deal with Putin, he said the talks had convinced him to back off on secondary sanctions for the time being.
· "I don't think I have to think about it," he told Fox News' Sean Hannity.
· "I might have to think about this in two weeks or three weeks or something like that, but we don't have to think about this now."
Trump says Putin gave him advice on fair elections
· President Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin gave him advice on how to hold "fair elections."
· “Vladimir Putin, the smart guy, said you can’t have fair elections with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “He said ‘your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.’”
"And he said there's no country in the world that uses it," Trump added, telling Hannity that Putin had told him the 2020 election had been stolen.
· Putin, who has been in power since 2000, has been accused of holding biased elections, with allegations of fraud and voter intimidation. Putin's political opponents also have a tendency to die under mysterious circumstances.
· Trump says it's up to Zelensky to reach a deal
· President Donald Trump said it is now up to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to secure a ceasefire agreement.
"It's now up to President Zelensky to finish this," he said. "I would also say that European nations need to get involved a little bit."
· Zelensky was not invited to the summit.
· When asked what advice he would give the Ukrainian leader, Trump said: "Make a deal... Russia is a very great power."
Trump believes the 'big issue' he and Putin disagreed on will be revealed
· President Donald Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he was mostly pleased with his meeting with Vladimir Putin. But there was "one big issue" that the two leaders disagreed on.
· When asked what this problem was, Trump declined to say, but said he believed it was likely to be discovered soon.
· "I think someone will make this public," he said.
· "They'll figure it out. I want to see if we can finish it."
· Trump 'very pleased' with Putin backing his claims about war in Ukraine
· Donald Trump appeared on Fox News' Hannity show just hours after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
· During his interview, Trump said he was "very happy" to hear Putin agree with his regularly repeated claim that the Ukrainian invasion would never have happened if he had won the 2020 election.
· "I was very happy to hear him say that if I had been president, the war would never have happened," he said. /Adapted from Newsweek/
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