“There Really Were No Agreements in Anchorage.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s words that no agreement had been reached at the summit in Anchorage. According to Putin, the meeting discussed only “certain possibilities for ending the conflict in Ukraine, and compromises.” Russia, he said, is ready to continue discussing with the United States all the modalities that were considered in Alaska.

Separately, Putin commented on the proposal to limit hostilities to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, the DPR and the LPR. He said such a format would allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to pull troops from other fronts and would be “a salvation for Kyiv amid a shortage of personnel, but saving the Kyiv regime is not part of our plans.” He called the full “liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya” the main task of Russian troops and stressed that Russia would not give Ukraine a chance to stop the advance and impose its own terms for negotiations.

Addressing the infrastructure situation, Putin acknowledged that Ukrainian strikes on energy facilities are creating problems but described their impact as limited: damaged facilities, he said, are being restored quickly, Russia’s fuel shortage is “not critical,” and Crimea’s needs are covered by reserves for several days. Strikes on Russian infrastructure, in his view, do not affect the situation at the front and are carried out to sow division in Russian society, while Russia’s retaliatory strikes deep inside Ukraine, he said, are “much more powerful and painful.”

Among other things, Putin said Moscow now “knows for certain” that Kyiv and the West had no intention of implementing the Minsk agreements, while the West seeks Russia’s strategic defeat, and that no one has officially removed those theses from the agenda. A U.S. delegation is expected in Moscow after the end of the “hot phase on the Iranian track.” He also noted that Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups sometimes infiltrate territories occupied by Russian troops but are “quickly eliminated,” and said he had “not discussed in detail” with Alexander Lukashenko Ukraine’s “aggressive statements” toward Belarus. In Sumy region, Putin said, Russian troops are 10.5 kilometers from Sumy, and Russia’s goal there is to create a “security zone.”