By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) -In the early hours of Saturday morning following a summit in Alaska between the leaders of Russia and the United States, senior politicians in Moscow were quick to trumpet the meeting as a win for Russia and its narrative of the war in Ukraine.

Russian media has lavished attention on the summit, hailing it as a win for Moscow and a proof of the country’s diplomatic revival. Pro-Kremlin outlets, which dispatched dozens of reporters to the U.S.