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What did we learn from the Trump-Putin summit?

Ukrainecast

BBC

News Commentary, News

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 31 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, Victoria and Vitaly were joined by Americast's Sarah Smith in Alaska and Adam Fleming from Newscast.

The producers were Purvee Pattni and Cai Pigliucci. The technical producer was Antonio Fernandes. The social producer was Grace Braddock. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, it's 1,270 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

0:10.6

And it has finally happened.

0:12.8

The summit that we have been building up to all week, Donald Trump has met face-to-face with Vladimir Putin,

0:18.5

the first time a US president has eyeballed the Russian leader

0:21.1

since the beginning of the full-scale war. No ceasefire was agreed. Very warm words were exchanged

0:29.0

between the two leaders. Have a listen. We had an extremely productive meeting and many points were

0:35.7

agreed to. There are just a very few that are left. Some are not

0:41.4

that significant. One is probably the most significant, but we have a very good chance of getting

0:47.2

there. We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there. I would like to thank

0:51.2

President Putin and his entire team whose faces, who I know in many

0:56.2

cases, otherwise, other than that, whose faces I get to see all the time in the newspapers.

1:02.0

You're almost as famous as the boss, but especially this one right over here. But we had some

1:10.0

good meetings over the years, right?

1:11.4

Good productive meetings over the years.

1:13.2

And we hope to have that in the future.

1:15.4

But let's do the most productive one right now.

1:17.5

We're going to stop really five, six, seven thousand, thousands of people a week from being killed.

1:23.5

And President Putin wants to see that as much as I do.

1:26.4

So again, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you very much.

1:30.2

And we'll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon.

1:34.2

Thank you very much, Vladimir.

1:36.3

Next time in Moscow.

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