Russian media and politicians are cheering what is seen as a victory for Vladimir Putin at the Alaska summit.
Commenting on the meeting with US President Donald Trump on Telegram, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, quoted by Tass, said that " Western media are in a state of frenzy , which is turning into real madness: for three years they have been reporting that Russia was isolated, and today they saw a red carpet rolled out to welcome the Russian president to the United States ."
According to Dmitry Medvedev, "a genuine mechanism for talks between Russia and the United States at the highest level has been reinstated. Calm, without ultimatums and threats. The Russian president personally and in detail explained to the US president our conditions for ending the conflict in Ukraine. The White House chief refused to exert pressure on Russia. At least for now. Importantly, the meeting demonstrated that negotiations are possible without preconditions and simultaneously with the continuation of the Special Military Operation. Most importantly, both sides explicitly placed responsibility for achieving a cessation of hostilities on the shoulders of Kiev and Europe ."
On the Tsargrad website, created by the mystical oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, the founder's editorial reads: "Let's see if the US administration can force the Kiev regime to make peace. Meanwhile, we must acknowledge that Putin, as always, is the best negotiator in the world: peace with America, and we continue to advance in Donbass. A great achievement ."
(Unioneonline)