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In view of the long -awaited meeting in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Moscow and Washington sent conflicting reports about their main goals and expectations at the summit.
The US president said that, in his opinion, Vladimir Putin was going to a meeting, wanting to conclude an agreement on the end of the war in Moscow in Ukraine.
“I think that now he is convinced that he is going to make a deal. He will make a deal. I think he will do it. And we will find out – I will find out about this very quickly, ”Trump said during his intervention on Fox News Radio.
This is not the first time Trump makes such a statement. He repeatedly stated that Putin wants to end his complete invasion of Ukraine or, at least that he can convince or even press Putin to accept some consent.
These statements have not been implemented, at least for now. Whenever Trump referred to a possible ceasefire, Russia continued or even strengthened its attacks on the front line and air attacks on Ukraine.
The rhetoric of the US president has changed a bit in the last days, has become a little less convincing and much less optimistic.
Earlier this week, the White House officials even described the meeting in Alaska simply “Listening Exercise”.
In recent days, the US president himself lowered him, describing the Friday summit as “laying the table for the second meeting”, presumably between Zelensky and Putin, in the presence of Trump and, possibly, European leaders.
“We will have a second meeting, if the first goes well,” Trump said, adding that the second meeting would prefer that the second meeting between Putin and Zelensky take place “almost immediately”.
When asked if he thinks that he can convince Putin to stop aiming at civilians in Ukraine, Trump replied: “I think that the answer to this is not, because I had this conversation (from Putin).”
And yet, Trump still says that he believes that some agreement will be signed in Alaska.
What does Moscow want?
But for Moscow, the agenda seems different.
The representative of Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said that the document would not be signed during the Alaska summit.
Although Peskov said that it would be “wrong” to predict the results of negotiations on Friday, he emphasized that there were no plans of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump to officially draw up any agreement.
“President Putin and President Trump are ready to talk and discuss the most difficult problems,” he added.
Putin’s assistant, Yuri Usakov, who participates in the Russian delegation at the Friday meeting, said that the central topic of the summit in Alaska is the “settlement” of the Russian war in Ukraine, although economic cooperation will also be discussed.
Putin himself held a special meeting on Thursday morning, when the Russian authorities said that the US government was “adequately and sincere effort to terminate hostilities, resolving the crisis and achieving agreements in the interests of all.”
Pointing to the main goal of the Kremlin to restart and, possibly, even normalize Russia’s relations with the United States – that for the Kremlin there is nothing to do with Ukraine – Putin said that the meeting is important ”to create a long -term world in the world.
The Russian president did not mention any step towards the cessation of his war against Ukraine, and instead focused on the contacts of Moscow with Washington in an attempt to hold a Friday meeting as the top of the superpowers of the world.
According to the US, the US Institute of Military Research on the basis of the United States uses the Alaska summit to present Russia as a global power equal to the United States and put Putin as the equivalent of Trump.
On Wednesday, the leading Russian negotiator and executive director of the Russian Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriyev referred to the 1945 Yalta conference between the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, arguing that the conference “they will also prevent the Second World War.
The leader of the Crimean region, tied to Russia, Sergey Aksion, claimed that Trump would have to visit this area in order to agree on the New World of Yalta.
The media controlled by Russia also contribute to the comparison of the Yalta summit, claiming that “people who have a real influence on global processes” will be on the Alaska table.
Donald Trump rejected the statements that a private meeting with the US President could be considered as a reward for Vladimir Putin.
But even if the meeting is not very good, and there is no second summit with the leaders of Ukraine and Europe, Putin will already come out of diplomatic isolation for the first time since the beginning of his full invasion of Ukraine.