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Ukraine says 'Spirit of Anchorage' is 'dead,' Russia must face reality in peace talks "If the 'Spirit of Anchorage' even existed, it is certainly dead now," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, mocking Russia's claims about an "understanding" reached during last year's summit with the U.S. in Alaska.

Ukraine Says 'Spirit of Anchorage' Is 'Dead,' Russia Must Face Reality ... President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk together. (photo: Susan Walsh/AP) go to original / print version / subscribe / donate 29 June 26 ALSO SEE: Dave Lawler | Ukraine’s Drones Take the War to Russia F oreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on June 28 said Russia's belief in "understandings" reached with the U.S. during last year's Alaska summit has been proven wrong. "The reality makes one thing clear: if the 'Spirit of Anchorage' even existed, it is certainly dead now," Sybiha said, mocking Russia's talking point about supposed agreements reached between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in August 2025. The comments come shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that no deals have been concluded in Anchorage, contradicting Moscow's version of the events. "For Russia, the lesson of Anchorage is that any peace plan developed without Ukraine is doomed to become a spirit and disappear," Sybiha said. Moscow should stop "believing in spirits" and sit down for serious talks, or face deteriorating position in the war, Ukraine's chief diplomat added. The…

How the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska spawned the Kremlin’s myth of the ‘spirit of Anchorage’ — and why it collapsed <p>Putin’s meeting with Trump in August 2025 gave rise to a new term in the arsenal of Russian diplomacy and propaganda: the “spirit of Anchorage.” The claim was that during the Russian president’s visit to Alaska, Russia and the United States had reached certain agreements on peace in Ukraine — agreements that were directly shaping events on the front and in diplomacy. For a full year, Russian politicians and pro-Kremlin journalists insisted that following the “spirit of Anchorage” was the key to breaking the deadlock in peace talks. After Putin rejected Zelensky’s public peace proposal — and as a fuel crisis triggered by Ukrainian strikes intensified — it became definitively clear that the “spirit of Anchorage” had evaporated. Trump acknowledged as much, and within days so did Putin. Writing exclusively for Meduza, political scientist and researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs Sergejs Potapkins explains how the “spirit of Anchorage” came into being — and why it lasted as long as it did.<p>

'Spirit of Anchorage' Is Dead, Sybiha Says, Urges Russia to Accept ... Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the so-called “Spirit of Anchorage” is “certainly dead,” arguing that any peace initiative developed without Ukraine is doomed to fail, and urged Moscow to engage in direct negotiations to end the war. Commenting on recent Russian claims that the United States had allegedly abandoned understandings reached during the 2025 Anchorage meeting, Sybiha dismissed the concept altogether,UATV Englishreports. “Russians like to talk about the ‘Spirit of Anchorage.’ But like any spirit, no one really knows what it is,” Sybiha wrote onX. “Reality is clear: if the ‘Spirit of Anchorage’ ever existed, it is certainly dead now.” According to the foreign minister, the main lesson of Anchorage is that “any peace plan designed without Ukraine is destined to become a ghost and disappear.” Sybiha called on Moscow to abandon what he described as illusions and instead respond to Ukraine’s proposals for direct negotiations. “Russia should stop believing in ghosts and instead respond to Ukraine’s serious proposals to sit down at the negotiating table and end this war. The longer Putin …

FM Sybiha responds to Kremlin's statements about 'spirit of Anchorage ... Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that the "spirit of Anchorage," as Russia calls it, if it ever existed at all, is now definitely dead. He stated this on X , Ukrinform reported. "The Russians like to talk about the 'spirit of Anchorage.' As with any spirit, no one truly knows what it is. But the Russians believe in it, and they think everyone else should as well. The reality makes one thing clear: if the 'Spirit of Anchorage' even existed, it is certainly dead now," Sybiha said. The head of Ukraine's foreign ministry noted that the lesson of Anchorage for Russia is that any peace plan developed without Ukraine's participation is "doomed to become a spirit and disappear." Read also: FM Sybiha: Ukraine expecting Belarus not to be drawn into war, but closely monitoring threats "Moscow should stop believing in spirits and instead respond to Ukraine's serious proposals to sit down at the negotiating table and end the war. The longer Putin refuses to accept the reality that he will never achieve any goals on the battlefield, the worse things will get for Russia," Sybiha wrote. As Ukrinform reported, on June 25,…

Ukraine says 'Spirit of Anchorage' is dead as Putin forced to admit ... Ukraine says 'Spirit of Anchorage' is dead as Putin forced to admit fuel shortages Ukraine has hit out at Russia's claims it had reached secret 'understandings' with the US during last year's Alaska summit, saying those hopes have been shattered News Zahra Khaliq News Reporter 07:28, 29 Jun 2026 Updated 07:54, 29 Jun 2026 View 3 Images Trump and Putin meeting for the Alaska summit (Image: AFP via Getty Images) Ukraine has declared the so-called "spirit of Anchorage" dead as Russia was forced to admit it is struggling with fuel shortages. ‌ The phrase referred to what Moscow claimed was a new era of cooperation with the US after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska last year. ‌ Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha hit out at claims Russia had reached secret "understandings" with the US during the August 2025 meeting , saying those hopes have been shattered. ‌ "The reality makes one thing clear: if the 'Spirit of Anchorage' even existed, it is certainly dead now," Sybiha said. His comments came after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said no deals had been made in Anchorage, directly contradicting Moscow's ve…

Ukraine says 'Spirit of Anchorage' is dead as Putin forced to admit ... ## Kyiv Denounces Russian Assertions of US Accord, Citing Shattered Diplomatic Hopes Kyiv has vehemently refuted Russian claims of secret understandings reached with the United States during last year’s summit in Anchorage, Alaska. Ukrainian officials stated that any such aspirations have been definitively extinguished, casting a pall over diplomatic prospects and underscoring the deep chasm in international relations. The assertion by Moscow that covert agreements were forged with Washington has been met with outright dismissal from the Ukrainian government, which views these pronouncements as a deliberate attempt to sow discord and misrepresent the geopolitical landscape. The original context of these Russian claims appears to stem from a narrative suggesting that the United States, through discussions at the Anchorage summit, had implicitly acknowledged certain Russian interests or security concerns, potentially in exchange for cooperation on other matters. However, Ukraine’s response indicates a stark divergence from this interpretation. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a strongly worded sta…