Trump, Putin End High-Stakes Alaska Meet After 3 Hours Of Talks: 10 Points

Here's your 10-point cheatsheet to this big story

1. US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday held a "very productive" and "mutually respectful" high-stakes summit in Alaska that could determine the trajectory of the war in Ukraine and the fate of European security.

2. The two leaders held a joint press conference after three hours of talks but did not take any questions from reporters. President Trump made it clear that "there is no deal until there is a deal", indicating the absence of any proper resolution during the meeting, while President Putin described the talks as "thorough and useful". 

3. Mr Trump was accompanied by top aides throughout, the White House said. Mr Trump, instead of a previously planned one-on-one meeting, was joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff before a larger meeting over lunch that included other officials, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Air Force One. 

4. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov joined Mr Putin for his landmark talks. 

5. "We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left," Mr Trump told reporters.

6. The Russian President, who first addressed the media and for a longer time than Mr Trump, said the "negotiations took place in a constructive and mutually respectful atmosphere". 

7. The summit took place at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska's largest military installation and a Cold War base for surveillance of the Soviet Union.

8. While on his way, Mr Trump told reporters he is not going to Alaska to broker a deal on behalf of Ukraine, but said instead his goal was getting Mr Putin to the table. "I'm not here to negotiate for Ukraine," he added. "... I think it's going to work out very well - and if it doesn't, I'm going to head back home real fast," he told reporters in the presidential plane.

9. While Mr Trump was flying to Alaska, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the US president should convince Russia to stop its "invasion". "It is time to end the war, and the necessary steps must be taken by Russia. We are counting on America," Mr Zelensky said in a social media post.

10. For India, which faces US tariffs over buying Russian oil, the situation is such that it cannot allow itself to be used by the US in the West's misguided trade war with China, a top American economist told NDTV ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting. "... I have been saying to my dear Indian friends for years, which is that the United States uses other countries. It does not act responsibly towards other countries, so be careful. India should not allow itself to be used by the US, for example, as somehow in the US' misguided trade war with China," professor Jeffrey D Sachs, who teaches at Columbia University, told NDTV.