Putin, Trump and Alaska
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President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine.
The US president said a peace agreement would be better than a "mere" ceasefire, hours after summit with Putin that produced little.
Both President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered brief remarks, but took no questions, in Alaska.
Russian President Putin speeches during their joint press conference with U.S. Persident Donald Trump after their meeing on war in Ukraine at U.S. Air Base In Alaska on August 15, 2025, in Anchorage,
Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.
The meeting between the U.S. president and the Russian leader didn’t appear to yield any breakthroughs.