The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are still gathered two and a half hours after the summit began to negotiate a truce in Ukraine in Anchorage, in the state of Alaska.
According to White House officials, the first contact of this summit, which began at 11:30 local time (19:30 GMT), is still standing.
Trump is accompanied by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the special envoy for the Middle East and mediator with the Kremlin, Steve Witkoff. Putin, meanwhile, is next to the Russian Foreign Minister, Serguéi Lavrov, and Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin International Policy Advisor.
It is expected that after this meeting of three to three, which at first was going to be only among the leaders, a lunch will be held in which they continue to dialogue with an enlarged version of the delegations before the leaders appear before the media in a joint press conference.
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By US will be added the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent; the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick; The Secretary of Defense, Pete Heghseth, and the head of Cabinet, Susie Wiles.
In the Russian delegation, the Russian Defense Minister, Andréi Belousov; Finance, Antón Siluanov, and the representative for foreign economic cooperation, Kiril Dmitriev, among others.
Trump has received Putin at the Elmendorf-Richardson Air Base, on the outskirts of Anchorage, with a red carpet and with a cordial attitude. After posing before the cameras, both have led to the place of the meeting in the ‘beast’, the armored vehicle of the president of the United States ..
It is Putin’s first visit to American soil since 2015, when he met with the then president, Barack Obama, and Putin’s first with an US leader since the conflict between kyiv and Moscow began.
With EFE information.
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