Russia says US hasn’t followed through on Trump-Putin ‘understandings’
Key takeaways
- In the space of three days, three senior Russian officials have said, without providing specifics, that Washington has not followed through.
- Moscow rejects that, and has continued heavy attacks of its own.
- The U.S. has not spelled out what, if anything, was agreed, and allied leaders were unconvinced that Trump had achieved anything by rolling out the red carpet for Putin.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize LONDON: Russia has accused the United States of failing to deliver on “understandings” reached between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a summit in Alaska last August, a shift that suggests growing frustration in Moscow.
In the space of three days, three senior Russian officials have said, without providing specifics, that Washington has not followed through.
Their comments follow an intensification of Ukraine’s drone strikes deep inside Russia – including two attacks last week on a Moscow oil refinery – and a Group of Seven summit at which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Trump and other Western leaders that Kyiv was turning the tide of the war.