Trump and Putin’s meeting ends without a Ukraine peace deal

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a nearly three-hour summit in Alaska on Friday, but left without announcing a ceasefire or peace deal related to the Ukraine war.

Both sides claimed “progress” and “understanding” on unspecified points. Trump had hoped for an immediate ceasefire but admitted they “haven’t quite got there.”

Originally expected to be one-on-one, the meeting included US officials Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, alongside Putin’s aides Yuri Ushakov and Sergey Lavrov.

The summit marked a break from America’s diplomatic norms. Putin, under US sanctions and an international arrest warrant for war crimes, was treated as a guest without being pressed on those issues.