The Kremlin is attempting to use the upcoming Alaska summit to divide the United States from Europe rather than engage in meaningful peace efforts

According to the ISW analysts Putin will use his meeting with the US President Trump to devide the USA from Europe.

On August 10, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev claimed on his English and Russian language Telegram accounts that Europe is trying to prevent the United States from helping to stop the war in Ukraine. A day earlier, Russian Liberal Democratic Party Head Leonid Slutsky alleged that European countries are pursuing an anti-Russian policy and obstructing a quick peace settlement. Russian political scientist Sergei Markov told the Washington Post on August 10 that Russia’s main goal for the upcoming Alaska summit is to present Ukraine and Europe, rather than Russia, as the obstacles to peace. He said Russia will not reverse any of its actions and that the only compromise it is willing to consider is stopping its push to seize Odesa and Kharkiv oblasts and the cities of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Markov expressed hope that Donald Trump would come to see Volodymyr Zelensky as the main reason for the war, with European leaders as the second, rather than Russia itself.

European and Ukrainian officials, including Zelensky, have consistently shown readiness to engage in genuine negotiations and accept substantive ceasefire agreements to advance peace, while Russia has repeatedly rejected such efforts in pursuit of gradual battlefield gains and further concessions from Ukraine and the West. The Kremlin has long sought to undermine unity between the United States, Europe, and Ukraine as part of a broader campaign to discourage Western support for Kyiv and divert attention from Russia’s refusal to compromise on its original war demands. Analysts assess that Moscow remains firm in its objectives: preventing Ukraine from joining NATO, replacing its government with a pro-Russian administration, and demilitarizing the country—conditions that would amount to full Ukrainian capitulation. They also warn that Russia is highly likely to violate and exploit any future ceasefire agreements while blaming Ukraine for the breaches, as it has done in the past.