Moscow is still waiting for a US response to a proposal made at the summit, the Russian foreign minister has said
Dialogue between the US and Russia kick started by the Alaska summit between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin continues, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The two nations can still “do much” on the basis of understandings reached there, he told Kommersant in an interview published on Wednesday.
According to Lavrov, Putin came to Alaska with a response to a US proposal presented by Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, during his visit to Moscow ahead of the summit. His message was that Russia “accepts the proposal… and suggests a specific path for its implementation,” the minister said, without revealing any details about its nature.
Back in August, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov described Washington’s offer as “acceptable.” Neither Russia nor the US commented on the details.
Russia is still waiting for a US response to its roadmap presented in Alaska, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. Lavrov also praised Trump and his administration for being the only Western government making an effort to understand the underlying causes of the Ukraine conflict.
According to Lavrov, the West’s desire to “lure” Ukraine into NATO and “discrimination” against the people of Donbass by Kiev were among those causes. Putin and Trump discussed “a way forward” in light of those issues at the summit, the minister revealed.
Russia’s top diplomat also said that the latest US statements about potentially supplying Kiev with Tomahawk missiles do not affect the understandings reached in Alaska in any way. He also linked those statements to the pressure Washington faces from Kiev’s backers in Europe.
The EU and the UK are trying to make the Ukraine conflict “Trump’s war” and force the American president to change his initial stance, the minister said.
The Alaska meeting in August marked the first face-to-face encounter between Trump and Putin since 2019. Both leaders called the summit productive, although no breakthrough was achieved. Last week, Ushakov said the agreements reached thus far do not sit well with Ukraine and its European backers but that “this does not mean they are not working.”
