The summit, held on Friday at the Anchorage military base in the northernmost US state, aimed to launch a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.

However, it appears that very few substantive decisions were made during the meeting.

Trump claimed that"a lot of progress" had been made,"many points" had been agreed upon, and"very little" remained in disagreement.

Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised the US president's efforts to achieve peace and said that thanks to Trump,"we are closer than ever" to ending the war in Ukraine.

However, the most prominent foreign affairs and military experts say that the main thing that was achieved at the summit was to give legitimacy to V. Putin, who is considered an outcast by many world leaders after the invasion that began in 2022.

Orysia Lucevich, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program and head of the Ukraine Forum at the think tank Chatham House, said: “After six bilateral phone calls between Trump and Putin, five trips to Moscow by Trump’s envoy (Steve) Witkoff, the Alaska summit, which the whole world watched with such great expectations and anxiety, failed to produce any tangible results in stopping Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Trump called Russia a"great country" and said there was a strong mutual understanding between the two countries.

This means that another crack has opened in the already fragile transatlantic alliance, and destroying this alliance is Russia's main goal.

The summit in Alaska is another step towards this goal.”

Meanwhile, Keir Giles, an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at Chatham House, said there could be a"double jeopardy" after the summit.

First, Trump may now view Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a"softer target that he would be more willing to influence," and the US president may "once again try to force Zelensky to sacrifice the future of his country."

The second danger is that European leaders, who tried to talk to Trump before the summit,"may again think that the immediate danger has passed" and calm down.

Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melvin, director of international security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), said that Putin would consider the summit a success.

According to N. Melvin: “Vladimir Putin came to the summit in Alaska with the main goal of stopping any pressure on Russia to end the war.

He will consider the outcome of the summit to mean that this mission has been successfully accomplished.”

He added: “Russia’s war aims have not changed since it launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.”

At the summit, Putin made it clear that he first wanted to eliminate what he believed were the root causes of the war.

According to the Kremlin, such reasons include NATO expansion, the emergence of governments in Ukraine that oppose Russia's integration projects, and resistance to Russian claims to territory and ethnic Russians in Ukraine.

This is Russia's precondition, which underpins Putin's demand for a"comprehensive peace agreement."

Such plans, if implemented, would result in the subjugation of Ukraine.

Putin made no concessions at the summit.

Moreover, he managed to present himself as a legitimate equal to the President of the United States.

He will also consider it a victory that he managed to push Zelensky and European leaders to the margins of the main discussions about the future of European security.”

UK political party leaders have also warned against giving Putin legitimacy.

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said:"It's clear Putin doesn't want peace.

Trump's attempt to persuade him to make a deal has failed, so it's time for Trump to finally take tough action.

The UK should seize Russian assets and help Ukraine today, and urge the US to do the same.”

Meanwhile, Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said the world was"back where we started" after the summit, adding:"Russian aggression has led to a brutal war, with no real solution in sight."

Any long-term peace plan without the full participation and support of Ukraine will fail.

Comparing how Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin and how he publicly humiliated Zelensky, it is clear that the only winner in these negotiations is Putin.

He has been given credibility - a seat at the top table - while his forces continue their attacks on Ukraine.”