© EPA/ AARON SCHWARTZ / POOL There they made a verbal agreement, called the “Anchorage formula.” The White House has displayed a photograph featuring US President Donald Trump alongside Russian Federation leader Vladimir Putin, captured during a summit in Alaska . This was communicated by PBS correspondent Elizabeth Landers on the social media platform X. “I spotted something new: a framed picture of Presidents Trump and Putin at the summer gathering in Alaska,” she penned. She mentioned that the image is positioned in the corridor linking the West Wing of the White House to Trump’s living quarters. The picture presents the two leaders standing side-by-side. Beneath this photo, there’s a shot of the US president with his granddaughter.
The Trump-Putin rendezvous in Anchorage, Alaska, occurred on July 15, 2025. It concluded without achieving the outcomes anticipated by Ukraine, Europe, and the United States— an accord for a cessation of hostilities —nor even a formal dinner. Although the American president assessed the meeting as “10 out of 10,” it later surfaced that Trump and Putin crafted a spoken pact, which is known as the “Anchorage formula .” As reported by Reuters, the fundamental core of this formula involves the retreat of Ukraine’s Armed Forces from the territories within the unoccupied section of Donetsk region, facilitating Russian control. In exchange, the occupying forces purportedly pledge to maintain the current battle lines in the south and east.