Russia is still in deadly Ukrainian attack despite Trump-Pudin and peace talks

Russia did not attack from attacking Ukraine and beat it with missiles and drones on Thursday Donald Trump Meet with the Russian President Vladimir Putin Anchorage, Alaska, attempted to propose a peace agreement.

According to experts, the attack may indicate that Putin is using diplomacy to spend more time promoting his goals and continuing to attack Ukraine, while avoiding the secondary sanctions threatened by the Trump administration.

R-Neb, chair of the Cyber ​​Question Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. Rep. Don Bacon said it’s time to take action.

“Putin is stringing President Trump, and the extra time is helping Russia continue bombing campaigns against Ukrainian cities,” Bacon said in a statement to Fox News on Friday. “Trump refuses to impose secondary sanctions on Russia and sends high-end weapons to Ukraine, the more he looks like Putin’s Simp.

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Bacon, a retired Air Force brigade general who did not seek reelection in 2026, said the discussion with Putin proved futile and said Putin was not serious about the deal.

“We have seen zero results for the negotiations as far as Putin is willing to compromise,” Bacon said. “While I think it is worth seeking for negotiations at first, it shows that Putin does not want peace.”

The White House insists that Trump has made greater progress in two weeks to resolve the conflict, making progress over three years than his former president, Joe Biden, has pointed to Trump’s meeting with Putin and Ukrainian presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy Within a few days.

“President Trump’s national security team continues to hold bilateral meetings with Russian and Ukrainian officials to stop the killings and end the war, White House spokesman Anna Kelly said in a statement to Fox News on Friday’s digitalization of digital numbers.

Trump announced on July 14 that he would sign “serious tariffs” against Russia if Moscow fails to agree to a peace agreement within 50 days. He then drastically reduced the deadline to 10-12 days ending on August 8. But Trump met with Putin in Alaska a week later and brought great success to the meeting, rather than additional sanctions on Russia.

Nevertheless, progress from the conference appears to be limited. Russia disagrees with the ceasefire, while Trump The first three-sided meeting With Putin and Zelenskyy’s work, Russia showed no interest at the conference.

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Right President Donald Trump greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived at the joint base Elmendorf-Richards on August 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with NBC News on August 22 that the meeting was not arranged, and Putin only agreed to a meeting if certain terms were approved in advance. He said that this is not the case.

“When the agenda was ready to reach the top, Putin was ready to meet with Zelenskyy, and the agenda was not ready at all,” Lavrov said.

Meanwhile, Russia launched a massive attack on nearly 600 drones and baits in Kiev on Thursday, killing more than 20 people. In response, the UN Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on Friday, according to urging from Ukraine and several other European allies.

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Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said in an article on X during the administration of former President Obama that Putin only attacked Ukraine after the Alaska meeting and said Putin “publicly ridicule” Trump.

“I hope Mr. Trump and his team understand how Putin spits on his face,” McFal said in a post on Thursday about X.

Additionally, Putin is the fact that he can bypass the economic consequences and will not seriously negotiate a deal unless he has to serve as the U.S. ambassador during his former president. Bill Clinton’s administrative.

“I think Putin is actually ruling the president,” Pifer told Fox News Digital. “Putin still believes that he can achieve his goals and see Ukraine on the battlefield. We won’t see serious negotiation attempts by the Russians until Putin firmly believes that he can’t win on the battlefield, and continuing to try only means more and more costs, first and foremost, there are a lot of dead Russian soldiers.”

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Right Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin left for a meeting at the joint base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“I just can’t see any very serious steps in which the government imposes any punishment on Putin,” Piver said. “I think Putin has figured it out until Putin is not good for this concept and he will keep disappearing deadline.”

Historically, Russia’s demands for peace agreements include a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO and concessions to some previous Ukrainian borders.

Peter Rough, a senior researcher and director of the European and Eurasian Center of the Hudson Institute’s think tank, said Putin’s demand for peace deals was to boost Ukraine’s calories because Putin knew the United States was eager to end the war.

The U.S. president ended the war in Ukraine before Trump met with Putin and held a meeting with Zelenskyy a few days later, saying the war could be ended immediately if Ukraine agreed to cede Crimea to Russia and abandoned bids for NATO membership.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump attended a meeting at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, August 18, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

“Putin managed to avoid U.S. sanctions in Alaska and was content with Ukraine,” Rough News Motherd told Fox News Digital Soninger. “But he also recognized that the United States wanted the war to end, so he proposed a proposal aimed at calling Washington, hoping that the United States would put pressure on Ukraine to accept its terms. If he could divide the transatlantic alliance along the way, it would at least help him avoid other U.S. asylum.”

John Hardie, deputy director of Russian Programs at the Russian Defense Foundation, said Putin was not interested in reaching a deal unless its terms were included. Meanwhile, Putin is using diplomacy to avoid economic consequences, Hardy said.

Hardy told Fox News Digital Sotherd that I think Putin does want to reach a deal, but only if his terms are on it. “Up until then, he was committed to continuing the war, and Russia tried to use diplomacy to stop the U.S. economic pressure and redirected Trump from Moscow to Kiev. ”