Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to three high-level Russian officials' claims that the US had reneged on the "Spirit of Anchorage", which an RT contributor described as Trump coercing Zelensky into withdrawing from Donbass in exchange for Putin declaring a ceasefire, by denying that any deal existed. In his words, "There was a proposal in Alaska, but there was no agreement. If there had been an agreement, we would have had an end of the war." His Russian counterpart feels differently.

According to Sergey Lavrov, he himself, Rubio, Trump and others were there when Putin read back each of Steve Witkoff's proposals one by one, after which Putin expressed agreement with them once Witkoff confirmed that he understood them. Evidently, the Russian delegation believed that an understanding was reached whereby Trump was obligated to do something, but he never did. Given RT's reliability, it was likely what they reported, which Trump failed to comply with for the reasons explained here.