‘Next time in Moscow’: Putin spoke last words in English at Alaska summit while inviting Trump to Russia

As Trump welcomed Putin on the red carpet, rolled out by the federal administration for the Russian leader, they joked and later conversed in the back seat president’s limousine, dubbed “The Beast.”

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President @realDonaldTrump following talks in #Anchorage, Alaska:

💬 President #Putin: Next time in Moscow
💬 @POTUS: I could see it possibly happening#RussiaUSA pic.twitter.com/wJQBarzhI3

— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) August 16, 2025

As Putin concluded his remarks at the joint press conference, he invited Trump to Moscow for another round of discussion and said “Next time in Moscow.” Trump, and others present were visibly surprised at the Russian president’s usage of English and the US president replied, “Ooh, that’s an interesting one.”

Putin spoke in Russian for the majority of his speech, except for inviting Trump to Moscow when he switched to English.

The summit concluded without a ceasefire deal but Putin also said “thank you so much” at the end of it in Alaska. Putin, who is a former Russian intelligence officer with the Soviet Union’s security service, the KGB, uses translators to avoid the usage of English during diplomatic conversations.

However, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov in 2021 had said Putin, who is fluent in German, speaks good English and “sometimes even corrects the translators.”

Though both the leaders did not take any questions from the press after the completion of their press conference and concluding the Alaska summit, Putin even dodged questions by journalists upon arriving in Alaska by signalling that either he can’t hear them or couldn’t understand them.