Moscow accused Washington of backtracking on agreements reached at the summit of Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska. Several senior Russian officials have made the statements in recent days, Reuters reports. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
According to the agency, the Kremlin's discontent intensified amid increased Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory, including attacks on the Moscow oil refinery, and after the G7 summit where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared a turning point on the front.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said one side had not fulfilled the agreements reached.
"Only one side remained committed to the agreements reached, while the other side, as it now turns out, was unable to fully fulfill its part," he said.
According to TASS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also questioned the results of the Alaska talks.
"I don't even want to suspect that Alaska, like European actions, was designed to buy time for rearming the Kyiv regime. I don't even want to think about it, but in reality, it turned out as it did," the minister said.
According to Lavrov, the administration of US President Donald Trump is gradually moving away from previously agreed approaches to resolving the conflict.
"As for the United States, as far as one can assess their actions, they seem to be moving away from the claim to be an objective mediator and following the same course of increasing sanctions pressure on Russia," the minister noted.
Reuters notes that after the Alaska summit, Russian authorities repeatedly referred to the so-called "spirit of Anchorage," implying mutual understanding between Moscow and Washington on resolving the conflict in Ukraine. However, Trump later did not rule out the possibility of Ukraine returning territories under Russian control, which caused disappointment in the Kremlin.