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There was no deal when U.S. President Donald Trump met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday.
That was not unexpected. The summit, which was initially arranged to discuss a ceasefire to Moscow’s war in Ukraine, was on Tuesday reframed by White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt as a “listening exercise” that allowed Trump to get a “better understanding of how we can hopefully bring this war to an end.”
Prior to the summit, analysts were already casting doubt on the talks advancing any real ceasefire in Ukraine.
“Let’s be clear, Putin does not take Trump seriously,” Tina Fordham, founder of Fordham Global Foresight, told CNBC.
