Russia accused the United States of failing to fulfill “agreements” reached between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a summit in Alaska last August, in a sign of growing frustration in Moscow.
Within three days, three senior Russian officials said, without elaborating, that Washington had failed to deliver on its promises.
The statements come after Ukraine’s intensified drone attacks on Russian territory — including two attacks last week on an oil refinery in Moscow — and after the G7 summit, at which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Trump and other Western leaders that Kiev is reversing course on war.
Moscow rejects this assessment and continues carrying out its own attacks.
Since Trump last year tried to broker an end to the war in Ukraine — sometimes criticizing Putin but more often blaming Zelensky for failing to reach a deal — the Kremlin has repeatedly expressed gratitude for his efforts.
Since the summit in Alaska, there has been frequent talk of the “spirit of Anchorage”, an expression that, according to analysts, summarizes the Russian claim that Trump would be sympathetic to Moscow’s main demand: that Ukraine cede the entire Donbas region in exchange for freezing the battle lines in other areas.
The US has not clarified what, if anything, was actually agreed upon, and allied leaders are not convinced that Trump got results by rolling out the red carpet for Putin.
But just a month after the summit, Trump, in yet another characteristic U-turn, suggested that Ukraine could regain all of the territory seized by Russia, prompting Moscow to express disappointment.
In the first of a series of high-level statements about the meeting, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Sunday that only one side had remained faithful to the agreements, “while the other side, it now appears, was not fully capable of fulfilling its part.”
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On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that the summit may have been “a US ploy to buy time and rearm the Kiev regime.”
Lavrov’s deputy, Sergei Ryabkov, also accused the US of moving away from the “fundamental understandings” reached in Alaska, according to the Interfax agency. Despite this, Ryabkov stated that dialogue with Washington must continue.
“We also see Washington’s line moving closer to the more radical anti-Russian policies adopted by the US’s closest European allies — namely the United Kingdom and France,” Ryabkov said, according to RIA, in reference to the G7 summit held last week in France.
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