Putin is losing patience with Trump — and Russia wants the world to know

 Russia’s relationship with Donald Trump has long been handled with careful words from the Kremlin.

That tone now appears to be changing.

Senior Russian officials have accused Washington of failing to follow through on understandings they say were reached between Trump and Vladimir Putin at their summit in Alaska last August, raising fresh questions about the state of U.S.-Russia diplomacy as the war in Ukraine intensifies again.

Moscow has repeatedly referred to what officials call the “spirit of Anchorage” since Trump and Putin met in Alaska.

Russian officials have never publicly detailed what they believe was agreed there, while the United States has also not spelled out any specific commitments from the summit.

The phrase has been widely read as shorthand for Moscow’s view that Trump was sympathetic to parts of Russia’s preferred path toward ending the war, including demands involving Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.

That confidence now appears to have weakened, says Reuters.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said one side had remained committed to the understandings from Alaska, “while the other side, as it now appears, has not been fully able to do its part”.

Lavrov raises sharper accusation

The criticism grew stronger this week.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that the Alaska meeting may have served another purpose for Washington.

According to Lavrov, the summit may have been a U.S. “ploy to buy time to rearm the Kyiv regime”.