Alaska meeting. The Russians talk straight of Putin's goal

• Russian commentators are convinced that during negotiations with Trump the Kremlin will not give way and will prosecute its key objectives towards Ukraine.

• The symbolic importance of the gathering place, Alaska, is emphasized by both the Russian and American sides.

• Experts inform that Trump's efforts to get the Nobel Peace Prize can be utilized by Putin, threatening to repeat his historical mistakes.

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It's apparent that Trump “came firstby agreeing to a meeting”, especially since it is It is highly improbable that the Kremlin will abandon its basic objectives – Demilitarisation of Ukraine, the installation of the pro-Russian government there, preventing its accession to NATO and forcing it to adopt neutral state position – consider Russian pro-Cremlian commentators whose opinions are analysed by the Washington Post.

Putin's gathering with Trump. “Russia will not take a step backwards”

One of the Russian analysts, Sergei Markow, announces that “Russia will not take a single step backwards” during negotiations with Trump, and only compromise, which he can agree to, is to halt the run aimed at occupying the regions of Odessa, Kharkiv and Zaporozh.

Russian politicians and oligarchs are pleased to stress that The choice of Alaska for the Putin and Trump gathering place is symbolic and beneficial – notes the Washington Journal.

Alaska “was born as Russian America, with Orthodox roots“ Putin’s economical advisor Kirił Dmitriev, who is the main intermediary between the Kremlin and Trump administration, notes.

The American-sanctioned billionaire and oligarch Konstantin Malofieev, who funds separatists in Donbasa, acknowledges that Alaskans “regardfully They remember their Russian past and Orthodox present‘.

Talks in Alaska. Expert on "an unhealthy Trump obsession"

Such opinions were commented by a political scientist from King’s College London Prof. Sam Green, who estimated that “Trump-Putin summit symbolism in Alaska is fatal – as if to emphasize that borders can be changed and territories can be sold.”

Markow, meanwhile, writes that “Russia hopes Trump will yet become sensible and realize that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski is the main origin of the warThat's what's going on, and that's The second origin of war is European leaders (...) and that they are his enemies.”

The day before, commentator on the Washington Post, historian and expert of the U.S. abroad Relations Council Max Boot estimated that "Trump's unhealthy obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize” for peace in Ukraine makes him let Putin to manipulate him and threatens to repeat his agreement with Munich in 1938.