US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly rejected Russian claims that Washington and Moscow reached an agreement on Ukraine during the Alaska summit in August 2025, saying no deal was ever finalized.As broadcasted by DRM News, Rubio said the summit produced only a proposal, not a binding agreement.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“We are prepared to step forward and play a constructive role if there’s one for us to play, and bringing the parties together and bringing that war to an end,” he said.“That’s what the President has tried to do now for a year and a half, but there was no agreement in Alaska. There was a proposal made in Alaska, but it was never an agreement,” Rubio added.
The meeting marked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first visit to US soil since 2022 and was widely viewed as a diplomatic boost for Moscow after years of Western isolation, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Rubio’s remarks directly contradict repeated claims by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who has insisted that Moscow accepted a US-backed framework on Ukraine during the Alaska talks and that Washington later failed to push Kyiv to accept it.Russian claimsIn early June, Lavrov claimed Russia had accepted what he described as American proposals presented during the August 2025 summit in Anchorage.“Aug. 15 of this year will mark one year since the Alaska summit, where the Russian leadership accepted the American proposals on Ukraine following their consideration,” Lavrov said.
