ANCHORAGE — President Donald Trump called his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska “extremely productive,” but offered little in the way of details about a potential “agreement” over the war in Ukraine, after a nearly three-hour meeting between the world leaders.
The pair spoke glowingly of each other in brief remarks after the meeting, but left a highly anticipated press conference without taking a single question from the gathered press — a move that shocked the dozens of reporters in the room who expected Trump to engage in his usual press volley. Reporters traveling with the president were quickly wrangled out of the room.
In front of a backdrop with the words “pursuing peace,” Putin spoke first, alluding to an “agreement” the pair reached together on Ukraine and warning Europe not to impede the path to peace.