The Trump-Putin Summit: ‘Next time in Moscow?’
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The first face to face meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin since the war in Ukraine started is over, with Donald Trump saying “we didn’t get there” on a Ukraine deal, or a ceasefire. The meeting lasted three hours, with the US president insisting progress was made, and Putin saying he is “sincerely interested” in ending the war, but without giving details. The two leaders both addressed the media at the end of the summit, but didn’t take questions.
In a special collaboration, Adam was joined by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko from Ukrainecast and Sarah Smith in Anchorage, Alaska for Americast.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, as promised, here is an early Saturday morning edition of newscast to help you make sense of what has just happened in Anchorage in Alaska, where presidents Trump and Putin had their big face-to-face meeting. |
| 0:17.7 | I think there's kind of two things to bear in mind about this. |
| 0:22.3 | Number one, there's not been some kind of great, big outcome here, either some kind of big peace deal for Ukraine or a |
| 0:29.2 | smaller peace deal that involves a ceasefire. Nothing like that has been agreed. The second thing to |
| 0:34.4 | take away is just kind of how jolly it was between President Trump and Putin, |
| 0:39.9 | as you'll be able to hear here at the end of the news conference they did a couple of hours ago. |
| 0:43.7 | We had an extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to. |
| 0:49.8 | There are just a very few that are left. |
| 0:53.5 | Some are not that significant. One is probably the most |
| 0:57.0 | significant. But we have a very good chance of getting there. We didn't get there, but we have a very |
| 1:01.8 | good chance of getting there. I would like to thank President Putin and his entire team whose faces, |
| 1:08.0 | who I know in many cases, otherwise other than that, |
| 1:14.5 | whose faces I get to see all the time in the newspapers. |
| 1:17.4 | You're almost as famous as the boss, |
| 1:21.1 | but especially this one right over here. |
| 1:24.1 | But we had some good meetings over the years, right? |
| 1:25.8 | Good productive meetings over the years. |
| 1:28.0 | And we hope to have that in the future. |
| 1:34.0 | But let's do the most productive one right now. We're going to stop really five, six, seven thousand, |
| 1:39.0 | thousands of people a week from being killed. And President Putin wants to see that as much as I do. |
| 1:44.9 | So again, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you very much. And we'll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon. Thank you very much, Vladimir. Next time in Moscow. Oh, that's an |
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