Putin, Trump and Alaska
Digest more
The US president said a peace agreement would be better than a "mere" ceasefire, hours after summit with Putin that produced little.
US President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin made “great progress” but did not emerge from yesterday’s summit in Alaska with an agreement on the war in Ukraine. Follow for live updates.
In a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, first lady Melania Trump urged him to think about the future for world's children
The US president will meet Zelensky in Washington on Monday in the wake of his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to say an overall peace agreement — not the ceasefire that he has long championed — is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year war in Ukraine.
WSJ chief foreign affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov unloaded a scathing summary of Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin, mocking the president's pivot.
The latest attempt to bring an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine has been dubbed a “win for Putin” after President Donald Trump walked away from demands for an immediate ceasefire.
The net effect of the Alaska summit was to give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a free pass to continue his war against his neighbor indefinitely without further penalty, pending talks on a broader peace deal.
Following a meeting on Friday in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine, President Trump and Russian leaders Vladimir Putin held a press conference to offer details on the state of negotiations.