Moscow is still waiting for a US response to a proposal made at the summit, the Russian foreign minister has said
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| FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Sputnik / Aleksey Mayshev |
RT reports: 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 by the two leaders, he told Kommersant, in an interview published on Wednesday.
According to Lavrov, Putin went 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.
Putin's 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.
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 that has made an effort to understand the underlying causes of the Ukraine conflict. Among which, according to Lavrov, was the West’s desire to “lure” Ukraine into NATO and “discrimination” against the people of Donbass by Kiev.
Putin and Trump discussed “a way forward” in light of these issues at the summit, the foreign minister said.
The top diplomat also said the latest US statements about potentially supplying Kiev with Tomahawk missiles do not affect the understandings reached in Alaska. He linked the statements to the pressure Washington faces from Kiev’s backers in Western Europe.
The EU and UK are trying to make the Ukraine conflict “Trump’s war” and force the US president to change his initial stance, Lavrov 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.”