The spirit of Anchorage is dead, Kiev told Moscow

“The reality clearly shows one thing: if there ever was a ‘spirit of Anchorage’, it is now definitely dead. For Russia, the lesson of Anchorage is that any peace plan developed without the participation of Ukraine is doomed to become a ghost and dissipate,” he said on the X network Sybiha.

“It’s time for Moscow to stop believing in phantoms and instead respond to Ukraine’s serious proposals to sit down at the negotiating table and end the war. The longer Putin refuses to recognize the reality – namely that he will never achieve any goals on the battlefield – the worse things will be for Russia,” added the head of Ukrainian diplomacy.

Sybiha further noted that no one except the Russians understands what the so-called spirit of Anchorage is.

Moscow mentions this term in connection with the agreements it says were reached last August at the meeting between Russian and American President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska.

It also reflects Moscow’s belief that Washington is ready to consider Russia’s security concerns and territorial claims as part of a broader peace framework in Ukraine. For example, the Russians claim that it was agreed in Anchorage that the Ukrainian Donbas will be under Moscow’s control as part of any peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

Recently, however, the Russians are experiencing bitter disappointment, because the Americans distance themselves from the alleged agreements reached in Anchorage.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared last week that no agreement was reached at the summit. “There was no agreement in Alaska. A proposal was presented in Alaska. But it was never an agreement,” he said.

According to the Axios server, President Trump had already expressed his frustration with Putin and his actions at the G7 summit. “Trump was skeptical of everything related to Putin and talked about putting pressure on Russia,” said an Axios source who was present at the G7 meeting. “But the other leaders did not really believe that he would really do something,” he pointed out.

The American president also publicly expressed the opinion that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi “does a pretty good job.” By this he meant the Ukrainian interventions in Russia’s rear, which caused a fuel crisis throughout the country, including the capital Moscow, and practically cut off the annexed Crimean peninsula from Russian territory.

“Well, he’s doing pretty well. Look, any way you look at it, he’s doing pretty well. At least he’s holding his own. You have to admit he’s brave, he’s got great equipment, he’s got great men, he’s got fighters,” Trump said, according to The Financial Times.

This represents a significant shift in the White House chief’s rhetoric regarding Zelensky. At the same time, however, according to Axios, this may not mean that this change will provide a new impetus for peace negotiations regarding Ukraine, which have stalled due to the war in Iran and Trump’s frustration after the failure of several previous rounds of talks.