Helsinki summit: what did Trump and Putin agree?

Off-the-cuff diplomacy made it difficult to work out what was agreed but some details have emerged in wake of meetings

No communique was issued following the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, underlining the off-the-cuff informal diplomacy in which Donald Trump specialises. The absence of an agreed statement leaves secret the status and extent of any practical agreements reached either between the US president and his Russian counterpart or in the later wider meeting between officials.