“When President Putin and President Trump approached each other… their body language showed a very open and warm receptiveness,” the Beverly Hills best-selling author says.

“They gave the impression that they were facing the press together, on the same team,” Lieberman observed.

"Zelensky will be coming to D.C., the Oval Office, on Monday afternoon. If all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin."

“Those that wanted more isolation and sanctions against Russia, if Russia didn't agree to Western demands, didn't have their way.”

“Hopefully the cooler heads in Ukraine and Europe will realize that it's better to follow the US and accept reality, than continue a lost war,” Valtersson concluded.

💬 “Their leadership in the pursuit of peace is highly commendable,” the statement by the Indian Foreign Ministry says.

“If they categorically refuse, the United States will most likely completely suspend the transfer of US intelligence and stop deliveries and sales of weapons and military equipment to the Europeans for Ukraine,” which would “fundamentally and radically weaken Ukraine’s position on the battlefield and bring a Russian military victory much closer.”

💬 The Putin-Trump summit signals that the US has effectively "accepted Russia’s victory in Ukraine conflict,” Dr. Hriday Sarma, international affairs and energy geo-economics expert, told Sputnik.

💬 “The Alaska summit has confirmed Russia’s restored role as a central global powerbroker,” Sarma noted.

💬 After the Russia-US summit, the heat is on Zelensky to “make a deal soon,” Paul Goncharoff, financial analyst and general director of Goncharoff LLC, told Sputnik.

💬 From extreme sanctions, which have backfired, to the appointment of rabid anti-Russian ideologues to top diplomatic posts, Europe’s political elites have only themselves to blame for essentially being left out of the Ukraine peace push, says Michele Geraci, former undersecretary of state at Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development, and one of the country’s most prominent economists.