Russian Presidential Assistant Yuri Ushakov told Vesti correspondent Pavel Zarubin that Russia does not expect the implementation of the agreements reached at the summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Anchorage.
Ushakov said: “We are not waiting for the implementation of these understandings or agreements, but rather we are waiting for victory. We are waiting for the achievement of our goals.”
According to him, one party “remains committed” to the Anchorage Agreements, while the other party turned out to be “completely unable to go its part of the way, to fulfill the agreements.”
After the summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska on August 15, 2025, Russian officials began using the phrase “Spirit of Anchorage” to describe some of the agreements reached at that meeting. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in response to a question about what the “spirit of Anchorage” is, said that this is “a whole series of understandings” between Russia and the United States.
However, since the beginning of 2026, Russian officials have begun to speak more critically about these agreements. In February, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that, following the summit in Alaska, Russia had accepted US proposals on Ukraine, but that Washington itself was not now ready to receive them. He later noted that “the spirit of Anchorage is evaporating.”