Consultation between Trump and Putin after more than two hours

The loaded American-Russian top in Alaska is over, reports the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and their consequences consulted for about two and a half hours at an air force base in Anchorage. The two are expected to give another press conference.

Whether Trump and Putin have achieved what is still unclear. They would first speak to each other with two advisers, and then join for a work lunch in a larger committee. Whether it came from the latter is the question. Not long before the end of the top was announced, the first meeting according to the White House was still ongoing.

The American president hoped to persuade his Russian colleague to observe a truce in Ukraine. Putin has set all kinds of conditions to this so far. Russia, which has been banned by the West since the Ukraine and received heavy sanctions, it is mainly to restore the US ties.

The top brought Putin for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine on Western soil. The American authorities temporarily adjusted the sanctions to make that possible.

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