ANCHORAGE /Alaska/, August 16. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump's schedule in Anchorage included a working lunch with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, but it was canceled after the talks, NBC reported.
According to the TV channel, several high-ranking US officials were also supposed to attend the lunch. However, after the meeting, the leaders decided to proceed directly to a press conference.
On August 15, a summit between Russia and the US took place at a military base in Alaska. The talks lasted more than three hours and included several formats: one-on-one in the American leader's limousine en route to the main venue and in a small group of "three on three." The Russian delegation included Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, while the US delegation included State Secretary Marco Rubio and Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Following the talks, Putin told the press that the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict was the main topic of the summit. The Russian leader also called for a new beginning in bilateral relations and a return to cooperation. He invited Trump to Moscow. For his part, the US president announced the progress achieved in the talks but noted that the two sides had not reached an agreement on everything.