


Fear of a new Oval Office fiasco over Ukraine
Officials worry Trump backs the Kremlin’s land grabs and fantasies
TIME DIFFERENCES meant that most Ukrainians only learned about the Alaska summit on Saturday morning. Though their initial reaction was relief, now they are dreading what comes next. The immediate sigh of calm was understandable. The feared grand bargain in Anchorage between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had not materialised. Initial reports highlighted that the talks at an American military base were truncated and lacked any clear outcome. “Disaster averted: Trump has not sold us down the river,” commented one MP early yesterday morning.
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