The Alaska summit still serves as the foundation for the development of bilateral relations, an aide to President Vladimir Putin has said<\/p>\n
Moscow and Washington remain in constant contact based on the \u201cagreements and understandings\u201d reached during the Alaska summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said.
\n\u201cWe continue working with the Americans on the basis of the agreements reached by the presidents in Anchorage,\u201d Ushakov told Russia\u2019s Channel One on Thursday. The Russian and US administrations hold regular consultations, he added.
\nAccording to Ushakov, the agreements reached during the mid-August summit do not sit well with Kiev and its European backers \u2013 \u201cthose who do not want the Ukraine crisis to be resolved peacefully.\u201d However, he emphasized that \u201cthis does not mean they are not working.\u201d
\nBoth the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Kremlin have referred to a \u201cpause\u201d in dialogue between the US and Russia about settling the Ukraine conflict. On Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that the \u201cpowerful impetus\u201d for the peace process generated by the Alaska summit had been extinguished, primarily by European \u201csupporters of war.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Although no breakthrough was achieved in Alaska, both sides hailed the meeting as constructive. Moscow has since emphasized that Kiev appears to lack genuine interest in peace. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier on Thursday that Moscow\u2019s peace proposals remained unanswered and that the process was \u201cnot moving forward.\u201d
\nIn recent weeks, Trump has also voiced frustration over the lack of progress toward a settlement. Late last month, he appeared to shift his stance, declaring that with sufficient European funding, Ukraine could capture all of its former territories \u2013 a position Moscow dismissed as unrealistic.
\nRussia maintains that it is open to a peace deal, provided that the realities on the ground and Moscow\u2019s legitimate security interests are taken into account. Last week, Peskov said that Putin remains ready and willing to host Trump in Moscow as per the invitation extended after the Alaska summit. However, there are currently no plans for another meeting between the two presidents, the Kremlin said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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