Former US national security advisor John Bolton said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "clearly won" at the Alaska Summit, although US President Donald Trump "did not lose", regarding the Ukraine peace deal.

Trump left the high-stakes three-hour, three-way meet with little more than a commitment to meet again. Bolton told CNN that Trump "didn't come away with anything, except more meetings," while Putin "has gone a long way to reestablishing the relationship, which I always believed was his key goal."

Bolton added, "He has escaped sanctions and he is not facing a ceasefire. The next meeting is not set. Zelensky was not told any of this before this press conference." Read here

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because "Russia is a very big power, and they're not", after hosting a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land.

In a subsequent briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a source familiar with the discussion cited Trump as saying the Russian leader had offered to freeze most front lines if Kyiv's forces ceded all of Donetsk, the industrial region that is one of Moscow's main targets.

Zelenskiy rejected the demand, the source said. Russia already controls a fifth of Ukraine, including about three-quarters of Donetsk province, which it first entered in 2014. Read here

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said he discussed ways of ending the conflict in Ukraine "on a fair basis" at his meeting with US President Donald Trump.

Speaking to top officials in Moscow a day after the talks in Alaska, Putin also said they had been "timely" and "very useful", according to images put out by the Kremlin.

"We have not had direct negotiations of this kind at this level for a long time," he said, adding: "We had the opportunity to calmly and in detail reiterate our position."

"The conversation was very frank, substantive, and, in my opinion, brings us closer to the necessary decisions," he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine withdraw from the eastern Donetsk region as a condition for ending Russia's war but told US President Donald Trump he could freeze the rest of the frontline if his core demands were met, news agency Reuters cited a Financial Times report as saying on Saturday.

Putin made the request during his meeting with Trump in Alaska on Friday, the FT said, citing four people with direct knowledge of the talks.

In exchange for the Donetsk region, Putin said he would freeze the frontline in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the report said.

Russia launched 85 attack drones and a ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said Saturday, hours after Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held their Alaska talks.

The highly anticipated meeting in the remote US state ended with no breakthrough in halting Russia's more than three-year-long Ukraine invasion.

Ukraine's air force said Moscow had "attacked with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 85 Shahed-type" drones, while also attacking "frontline areas" in four regions.  

In its daily report, the air force said the attacks took place "on the night of August 16" and starting in the evening of August 15 -- when Putin and Trump held their negotiations. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after a Russia-US summit ended without an agreement to stop the fighting in Ukraine after 3 1/2 years.

Zelenskyy, who was not invited to Alaska for the summit, said he held a "long and substantive" conversation with Trump early Saturday. He thanked him for an invitation to meet in person in Washington on Monday and said they would "discuss all of the details regarding ending the killing and the war."

"It is important that Europeans are involved at every stage to ensure reliable security guarantees together with America," he said. "We also discussed positive signals from the American side regarding participation in guaranteeing Ukraine's security." Read here

India has welcomed the Alaska summit of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "commendable" step towards bringing peace to war-torn Ukraine. Their leadership in the pursuit of peace is highly commendable, the government has said in a statement, hours after the two leaders addressed a joint press conference, but stopped short of signing a deal to bring that peace.

"India appreciates the progress made in the Summit. The way forward can only be through dialogue and diplomacy. The world wants to see an early end to the conflict in Ukraine," said the statement by the Ministry of External Affairs. 

European leaders on Saturday expressed support for a three-way summit between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia's Vladimir Putin and US leader Donald Trump, after a US-Russia summit failed to produce a ceasefire. 

A statement, signed by French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, insisted on maintaining pressure on Russia until peace was achieved, including through sanctions.

 "We will continue to strengthen sanctions and wider economic measures to put pressure on Russia's war economy until there is a just and lasting peace," said the statement. Read here

Russian forces took two more villages in eastern Ukraine, Moscow said on Saturday, hours after Vladimir Putin held talks with Donald Trump in Alaska. 

Russia's defence ministry said troops took the village of Kolodyazi in Ukraine's Donetsk region and the village of Vorone in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region. 

Pavlo Nebroev stayed up until the middle of the night in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv to wait for a press conference between Trump and Putin miles away, who met in Alaska to discuss Russia's more than three-year invasion of his country. 

But they made no breakthrough and seen from Kharkiv -- heavily attacked by Russia throughout the war -- the red-carpet meeting looked like a clear win for Putin. 

"I saw the results I expected. I think this is a great diplomatic victory for Putin," Nebroev, a 38-year-old theatre manager, said. 

"This was a useless meeting," he said, adding: "Issues concerning Ukraine should be resolved with Ukraine, with the participation of Ukrainians, the president." 

Olya Donik, 36, said she was not surprised by the turn of events. "It ended with nothing. Alright, let's continue living our lives here in Ukraine," she said. 

US President Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, raised the plight of children in Ukraine and Russia in a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, two White House officials said on Friday. President Trump hand-delivered the letter to Putin during their summit talks in Alaska, the officials told Reuters.

Slovenian-born Melania Trump was not on the trip to Alaska.

The officials would not divulge the contents of the letter other than to say it mentioned the abductions of children resulting from the war in Ukraine.

The existence of the letter was not previously reported.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky will head to Washington on Monday to discuss "ending the killing and the war" with US President Donald Trump, he announced Saturday. Zelensky said so after holding a call with Trump, during which the US leader informed him about the "main points" of his talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska.  

"On Monday, I will meet with President Trump in Washington DC, to discuss all of the details regarding ending the killing and the war," Zelensky said.  

"I am grateful for the invitation." 

Zelensky said he had a "long and substantive conversation with Trump", which began as a one-on-one talk, before being joined by European leaders. 

 US President Donald Trump spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after his summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska and also was talking with NATO leaders early Saturday, the White House said.

Trump secured no agreement to end Russia's war in Ukraine even after rolling out the red carpet for Putin.

US President Donald Trump seems to have softened his stance on Moscow's oil trade after meeting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. When asked about retaliatory tariffs on countries such as China and India for buying Russian oil, the American leader said he has no immediate plans to consider that, but might do it "in two or three weeks."

Trump was asked by Fox News' Sean Hannity if he was now considering punitive actions against Beijing after talks with Putin failed to produce an agreement to resolve or pause Moscow's war in Ukraine.

"Well, because of what happened today, I think I don't have to think about that...Now, I may have to think about it in two weeks or three weeks or something, but we don't have to think about that right now. I think, you know, the meeting went very well," Trump said after his summit with Putin in Alaska.

After meeting US President Donald Trump in Alaska, Russian President Vladmir Putin warned Ukraine and European countries to "not create any obstacles" and not "make attempts to disrupt this emerging progress through provocation or behind-the-scenes intrigues."

Trump invited Putin just a week ago and ensured there was some carefully choreographed drama for their first in-person meeting since 2019.

The two leaders arrived in their respective presidential jets and descended on the tarmac of an air base, with Trump clapping as Putin appeared.

The United States' military might was on full display on Friday at Alaska when a B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber flanked by US fighter jets thundered across the sky above Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he met President Donald Trump.

Putin got a red carpet welcome and even rode in Trump's presidential limousine from the tarmac to the summit venue.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he did not immediately need to consider retaliatory tariffs on countries such as China for buying Russian oil but might have to "in two or three weeks."

Trump has threatened sanctions on Moscow and secondary sanctions on countries that buy its oil if no moves are made to end the war in Ukraine. China and India are the top two buyers of Russian oil.

US President Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, raised the plight of children in Ukraine and Russia in a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, two White House officials said on Friday.

President Trump hand-delivered the letter to Putin during their summit talks in Alaska, the officials told Reuters. Slovenian-born Melania Trump was not on the trip to Alaska. The officials would not divulge the contents of the letter other than to say it mentioned the abductions of children resulting from the war in Ukraine.

The existence of the letter was not previously reported. Russia's seizure of Ukrainian children has been a deeply sensitive one for Ukraine.

Ukraine has called the abductions of tens of thousands of its children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of family or guardians a war crime that meets the U.N. treaty definition of genocide.  

US President Donald Trump on Friday claimed Russia lost India as one of its oil clients after Washington imposed a penalty on New Delhi over the purchases, and warned against the possibility of a similar sanction on Moscow with "devastating" results.

The sartorial choice of Sergei Lavrov, Russia's top diplomat, during US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin's Alaska meeting on Friday drew the attention of many across the globe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Friday to host US counterpart Donald Trump in Moscow, extending the apparent invitation during a press conference for their high-stakes summit in Alaska focused on resolving the conflict in Ukraine.

"Next time in Moscow," Putin told Trump in English after the US president thanked him and said he would "probably see you again very soon."

"Oh, that's an interesting one," Trump responded. "I'll get a little heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening."

"Well, they lost an oil client so to speak, which is India, which was doing about 40% of the oil, China as you know is doing a lot...and If I did secondary sanctions, it would be devastating from their standpoint.. If I have to do it, I'll do it, may be I won't have to do it," Trump said during the interview to Fox News when asked if "there is an economic side" to Russian President Vladimir Putin agreeing to hold a meeting in Alaska.

In a first joint press conference with a US President since 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin broke the protocol by taking the microphone first, as he ensured the narrative began on his terms, even without a signed peace deal to announce.

He leaned on history, geography, and 'neighbourly' ties with US while keeping the terms on Ukraine war vague.

Putin stressed Alaska's history as former Russian territory, framing the US and Russia as bound by geography and a "shared history," and portraying himself as a partner rather than a rival.

"An in-person meeting was long overdue," he said, adding that he and Trump now have "very good direct contact".

Donald Trump said Friday the onus was now on Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to build on the Alaska summit between the US leader and Russia's President Vladimir Putin and secure a deal to end Russia's three-year invasion.

A highly anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday yielded no agreement to resolve or pause Moscow's war in Ukraine, though both leaders described the talks as productive. During a brief appearance before the media following the nearly three-hour meeting in Alaska, the two leaders said they had made progress on unspecified issues. But they offered no details and took no questions, with the normally loquacious Trump ignoring shouted questions from reporters.

"We've made some headway," Trump said, standing in front of a backdrop that read, "Pursuing Peace."

"There's no deal until there's a deal," he added.

The talks did not initially appear to have produced meaningful steps toward a ceasefire in the deadliest conflict in Europe in 80 years, a goal Trump had set ahead of the summit.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin departed a military base in Alaska on Friday following their summit on the conflict in Ukraine.

The two leaders' planes took off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson within minutes of one another after they held around three hours of talks on the war, which has raged for more than three years since Moscow launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor in early 2022.

US President Donald Trump left no pomp and show to give a grand welcome to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump said Friday the onus was now on Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to build on the Alaska summit between the US leader and Russia's President Vladimir Putin and secure a deal to end Russia's three-year invasion.

"Now it's really up to President Zelensky to get it done. And I would also say the European nations, they have to get involved a little bit, but it's up to President Zelensky," Trump told Fox News after the summit, saying he rated the meeting as ten out of ten.

At the joint press conference that was held after the Alaska meet with US President Donald Trump, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said that the conflict in Ukraine would not have started if Trump would have been the President in 2022.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met for about 2.5 hours on Saturday at a high-stakes summit in Alaska that could shape the future of the Ukraine war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Friday to host US counterpart Donald Trump in Moscow, extending the apparent invitation during a press conference for their high-stakes summit in Alaska focused on resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
"Next time in Moscow," Putin told Trump in English after the US president thanked him and said he would "probably see you again very soon."
"Oh, that's an interesting one," Trump responded. "I'll get a little heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening."

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a joint press conference in Alaska on Friday at their high-stakes summit, but took no questions from journalists.
The press conference followed some three hours of talks between the two leaders and senior aides on the brutal war in Ukraine, which Moscow invaded in 2022.

.@POTUS and Russian President Vladimir Putin end the day's historic summit in Alaska pic.twitter.com/80SsqP2Di8

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine and its European allies should not create "obstacles" to peace as he spoke alongside US counterpart Donald Trump after their Friday summit focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Putin said Moscow expected "that Kyiv and the European capitals will perceive all this in a constructive manner and will not create any obstacles, will not make attempts to disrupt the emerging progress through provocation or behind-the-scenes intrigues."

US President Donald Trump said Friday he had a "very productive" meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on ending the Ukraine war, with the two leaders agreeing on "many points."

"We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left," Trump told a joint news conference alongside Putin in Alaska, adding: "We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there."

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed talks with US counterpart Donald Trump at their Friday summit in Alaska as "constructive" and "mutually respectful."
"Our negotiations took place in a constructive and mutually respectful atmosphere. They were very thorough and useful," Putin told reporters at a joint press conference with Trump.

US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin have begun a joint press conference in Alaska after three hours of talks.

⚡️ ⚡️ Joint news conference of Presidents Vladimir #Putin and @realDonaldTrump will begin shortly. pic.twitter.com/t1IrbKgw44

— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) August 15, 2025

The talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska have ended, the Kremlin said.

Trump and Putin's high-stakes summit over Moscow's war in Ukraine had stretched into its third hour on Friday, as the two world leaders sought a way to bring the deadliest conflict in Europe in 80 years to a close.

B-2 bomber conducts flyover as Trump and Putin shake hands at start of #AlaskaSummit pic.twitter.com/sBqgeWXiqz

— NDTV (@ndtv) August 15, 2025

US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin met and began their meeting in Alaska to discuss on years long Ukraine war.

Trump And Putin Hold High Stakes Talks In Alaska, Ukraine On Agenda https://t.co/0o5lkZxvpq pic.twitter.com/wIvW8EuvXb

— NDTV (@ndtv) August 15, 2025

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin began talks in Alaska Friday on bringing an end to the devastating war in Ukraine that Moscow launched in 2022.

Journalists were ushered out of the meeting room shortly after Trump, Putin and other officials took their seats in front of a backdrop that said "Pursuing Peace."

Russia President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump shook hands warmly at the start of their Alaska summit on Friday before heading into hours of discussions that could reshape the war in Ukraine and relations between Moscow and Washington.

President Donald J. Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the historic summit in Anchorage, Alaska. pic.twitter.com/Mes0sruTNa

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 15, 2025

Russia is preparing to test its new nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered cruise missile and if successful, plans to use the results to bolster its negotiating position with the West, Ukrainian military intelligence said on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at a military base in Alaska on Friday for a summit with his US counterpart Donald Trump on the conflict in Ukraine.

The meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will be the Kremlin leader's first on Western soil since before February 2022, when Russia launched its devastating full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump no longer plans to meet alone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday and instead will be joined by top aides throughout, the White House said.

Trump, instead of a previously planned one-on-one meeting, will be joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff before a larger meeting over lunch that will include other officials, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Air Force One, news agency AFP reported.

US President Donald Trump arrived in Alaska's Anchorage for a "high-stakes" meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that could not only shape the future of Moscow's three-year war with Ukraine, but also have consequences for European security.

Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterparts were a regular occurrence early in his 25-year tenure.

But as tensions mounted between Moscow and the West following the illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and allegations of meddling with the 2016 US elections, those meetings became increasingly less frequent, and their tone appeared less friendly. Read here

US President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for a "high-stakes" summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war in Ukraine but also the fate of European security.

The sit-down offers Trump a chance to prove to the world that he is both a master dealmaker and a global peacemaker. He and his allies have cast him as a heavyweight negotiator who can find a way to bring the slaughter to a close, something he used to boast he could do quickly.

For Putin, a summit with Trump offers a long-sought opportunity to try to negotiate a deal that would cement Russia's gains, block Kyiv's bid to join the NATO military alliance and eventually pull Ukraine back into Moscow's orbit.

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

Mr Putin will step onto Western soil for the first time since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 

According to sources, the city is abuzz with several activities, with hotels in the vicinity entirely booked and cab services to and fro from the site hard to avail. 

The federal administration, the sources said, has also placed temporary flight restrictions - likely from 9.30 am local time to 6.45 am local time - on Friday. These curbs, however, are unlikely to have any major impact on commercial flights. Read here

The Kremlin said Friday it expected the Alaska summit between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to last at least six to seven hours, Russian state TV reported Friday.

"You can expect that it will take up a minimum of six to seven hours," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia's Channel One state TV ahead of the summit, adding that Moscow anticipated a "productive" meeting. 

With less than a few hours to go until he is expected to land in Alaska's Anchorage, Trump has been speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.

"I want to see a ceasefire - rapidly. I don't know if it's going to be today, but I'm not going to be happy if it's not today... I'm in this to stop the killing," Trump said.

"I want to see a ceasefire — rapidly. I don't know if it's going to be today, but I'm not going to be happy if it's not today... I'm in this to stop the killing": US President Donald Trump ahead of #AlaskaSummit pic.twitter.com/trrc1DwwK8

— NDTV (@ndtv) August 15, 2025

US President Donald Trump said if the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't go well, he is going to "head home real fast."

"I think it's going to work out very well, and if it doesn't, I'm going to head back home real fast," CNN quoted Trump as saying in a brief clip of an interview that will air later on Fox News.

"If it doesn't, you walk?" anchor Bret Baier asked.

"I would walk, yeah," Trump said. 

Yesterday, on Fox Radio, Trump said that if the meeting goes well, he will call Ukrainian President Zelensky as well as the European Leaders. 

"If it's a bad meeting, I'm not calling anybody - I'm going home. ... But if it's a good meeting, I'm going to call President (Volodymyr) Zelensky and the European leaders," he said. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Moscow was still killing people and not showing that it wanted to end the war, hours before the start of a US-Russia summit in Alaska.

"There is no order, nor any signals from Moscow that it is preparing to end this war... they are also killing on the day of the negotiations," Zelensky said in a video address posted on social media.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was important that Friday's Russia-US summit in Alaska opened up a path towards a "just peace", as well as substantive three-way talks between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and the United States.

"It is time to end the war, and the necessary steps must be taken by Russia. We are counting on America," Zelensky wrote on the Telegram messaging app, as reported by news agency Reuters. 

Meanwhile, Trump said he would not negotiate on behalf of Ukraine in the meeting and would let Kyiv decide whether to engage in territorial swaps with Russia.

US President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of their "high-stakes" summit in Alaska. Trump said that Russia will face "severe economic consequences" if Putin doesn't show interest in de-escalating the Ukraine conflict.

Trump made these remarks while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Anchorage, ahead of the meeting between him and his Russian counterpart in Alaska, which will focus on exploring ways to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

"Yes, Russian President Vladimir Putin will face severe economic consequences if he is not interested. I am not doing this for my health. I don't need it. I would like to focus on our country. But I am doing this to save a lot of lives," Trump said.