The Kremlin has said that the "Anchorage Accords" reached between US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in August 2025 are no longer in effect, UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell has said, BBC reports.

"The so-called Anchorage compromise is firmly dead," Powell said at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv last weekend. "We can stop worrying about it. It's finished."

The details of this agreement are still unclear. It is believed to be an informal plan to end the war in Ukraine, the outlines of which were discussed by Trump and Putin at a military base in Anchorage, Alaska. The Kremlin claimed that this would entail the surrender of all of Donbas in exchange for a “freezing” of the front line in southern Ukraine.

Powell said Russia was no longer claiming the US had agreed that Ukraine should give up territory and hopes of NATO membership at last year's Trump-Putin summit in Alaska.

This meant "we can look for serious ways of getting to a negotiated settlement, rather than waiting for the Ukrainian people to hand over territory the Russians have not been able to conquer," Powell said.

"The strategy is to apply enough pressure to make [Putin] want to get into negotiation," Powell said.

He said Trump was "in a very different place."

"He sees that Ukraine is doing better and therefore he is not leaning in the direction of Putin in the way that he was previously. I think that's a really big asset," Powell said.