{"id":87267,"date":"2025-08-16T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87267\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:04:08","slug":"live-updates-trump-shifts-position-on-ukraine-ceasefire-after-meeting-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87267\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump shifts position on Ukraine ceasefire after meeting Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irrational and terrible: Ukrainians react to Putin&#8217;s red carpet welcomepublished at 12:57 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>12:57 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6937ccf0-93c6-46be-8c04-b24025209e08.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Joel Gunter<br \/>Reporting from Kyiv<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump and Putin walking on a red carpet, both wearing dark suits with red ties. Behind them in a runway and planes with soldiers stood holding flags. The pair are walking close to each other and talking.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5bdfb16a-69f5-436b-b40a-7b587edf83b5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"599\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the absence of any substantial outcome from last night\u2019s summit, people in Kyiv are reacting to the way the Russian president was treated in Alaska &#8211; what politicians tend to call the \u2018optics\u2019 of the meeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American soldiers knelt to &#8211; literally &#8211;  roll out the red carpet for Putin, while Trump referred to him as \u201cthe boss\u201d and gave him a lift in the US presidential limousine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cRed carpets and this type of ceremony are done at international events, but in this case &#8211; for an aggressor responsible for the deaths of millions &#8211; it should not have happened,\u201d Maria Drachova, a 40-year-old lawyer, says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe rational world behaved irrationally by giving him that welcome,\u201d she adds. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maria Drachova in a white t-shirt and jeans stood on the pavement, behind her is a road with traffic lights and pedestrian crossing. A man stand on the other side of the road in the distance.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e961e716-8d7b-4cf9-9d5d-a152073f5cd9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maria Drachova says the warm welcome for President Putin is &#8220;irrational behaviour&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Serhii Orlyk, a 50-year-old veteran from the eastern Donetsk region, says he felt \u201ccrushed\u201d by what he saw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI understand that for negotiations you shake hands, you can\u2019t just slap Putin in the face when he arrives. But this spectacle with the red carpet and the kneeling soldiers, it\u2019s terrible, it makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Valentyna Sikora, 72, a scientist, tells me she stayed up all night to watch the news. She is not bothered by the presentation, she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cTo me, it seemed like just an external display. Everything around it looked like a performance, but the results didn\u2019t match the spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, she expresses relief that \u201cno conditions were put on Ukraine\u201d adding: &#8220;Judging by the expressions of the Russian delegation, they didn\u2019t look all that satisfied either, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Valentyna Sikora standing in a long white t-shirt with a large red and orange necklace and glasses. She stands in front of a doorway holding a bag with arms by her side, she is smiling and looking to the right.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6cc85462-04f7-43f8-be3f-ffa1003ff52e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Valentyna Sikora expresses relief that \u201cno conditions were put on Ukraine\u201d at the summit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irrational and terrible: Ukrainians react to Putin&#8217;s red carpet welcomepublished at 12:57 British Summer Time 12:57 BST Joel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-87267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}