(16 Aug 2025)
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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska – 15 August 2025
1. President Donald Trump greeting Russian President Vladimir Putin
2. Trump and Putin walking on red carpet
3. Split screen showing Putin and Trump walking down the stairs
4. Trump and Putin shaking hands
5. Putin and Trump are seen in the window as car drives off
6. Mid of Trump and Putin posing for photos, journalists asking questions before bilateral meeting
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anchorage, Alaska – 15 August 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press:
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"President Donald Trump welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to an Alaskan military base to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. President Trump greeted President Putin with a red carpet. They both walked out of their airplanes at the same time, shook hands, smiled warmly for the cameras, and rode off together in the presidential limousine, talking. President Putin could be seen with a large grin on his face as they went off together to meet. They met for more than two hours behind closed doors with some of their aides. And then they came out where they were expected to take questions from the press. Each of them spoke for a few minutes and they had warm words for each other, but they didn’t take any questions. President Trump said they had not yet reached a deal, and it’s unclear what came of the meeting, what points they did agree upon and how close they are to getting this war ended."
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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska – 15 August 2025
8. Trump and Putin during briefing
9. Trump speaking
10. Leaders shaking hands, posing for the cameras, leaving
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on Friday to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant move yet to stop the bloodshed, even after rolling out the red carpet for the man who started it.
“There’s no deal until there’s a deal,” the U.S. president said, after Putin claimed they had hammered out an “understanding” on Ukraine and warned Europe not to “torpedo the nascent progress.”
Trump said he would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders to brief them on the talks.
Trump, who for years has balked at American support for Ukraine and expressed admiration for Putin, had pledged confidently to bring about an end to the war on his first day back in the White House.
Seven months later, after berating Zelenskyy in the Oval Office and stanching the flow of some U.S. military assistance to Kyiv, Trump could not bring Putin even to pause the fighting, as his forces make gains on the battlefield.
Trump had offered Putin both a carrot and a stick, issuing threats of punishing economic sanctions on Russia while also extending a warm welcome at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, but he appeared to walk away without any concrete result on ending the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year.
Instead, he handed Putin long-sought recognition on the international stage, after years of Western efforts to make him a pariah over the war and his crackdown on dissent, and forestalled for Putin the threat of additional U.S. sanctions.
In a sign that the conversations did not yield Trump’s preferred result, the two leaders ended what was supposed to be a joint news conference without taking questions from reporters.
AP Video shot by Kostya Manenkov
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