Russia's Lavrov says "spirit of Anchorage" is "evaporating"

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the atmosphere of negotiations between the United States and Russia following the Anchorage meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was constructive and friendly, but that the "spirit of Anchorage" is now "evaporating".

Source: RIA Novosti, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet

Quote from Lavrov: "People say the spirit of Anchorage has been destroyed because of the actions of the United States. You know, in Anchorage the spirit was far from the main thing. The spirit is the atmosphere – it was friendly, respectful and constructive. But the spirit is evaporating. The main achievement of Anchorage is not the spirit (I will say again, the spirit is evaporating); the key thing in Anchorage was the concrete understanding reached on the basis of proposals put forward by President Donald Trump and his negotiating team."

Details: Lavrov added that Putin has "repeatedly stated that we have accepted those proposals, including the aspects that already represent serious compromises for us".

Meanwhile, he claimed that Moscow is willing to continue negotiations on settling its war against Ukraine but believes that talks "very often become a cover for unfriendly actions".

"Well, we see how the US continues to provide intelligence to the Ukrainian regime [as Russians refer to the Ukrainian authorities – ed.], continues to sell weapons to Europeans so that they then transfer them to the Kyiv regime using their own funds… And sanctions against Russia are far from being only a legacy of [former US president] Joe Biden. Increasingly serious sanctions are being introduced already by the Trump administration. And the goal of pushing us out of global energy markets is being declared openly," Lavrov said.

Background:

• Trump and Putin met on 15 August 2025 at a military base in Anchorage, Alaska.
• The meeting ended without agreements or the announcement of a ceasefire in Ukraine, despite remarks regarding "significant progress".
• On 16 August 2025, after talks with Putin, Trump held a conversation first with Zelenskyy and then with him together with European leaders.
• According to Bloomberg, during the conversation with European leaders and Zelenskyy, Trump said that Putin had continued to demand the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from all of the Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast but was ready to freeze the front line in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Kherson Oblast.

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