“There’s no deal until there is a deal,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in Anchorage, Alaska, following a meeting between Trump, Putin, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov. The summit lasted about two hours and 30 minutes.

Ahead of the meeting, Trump appeared to place the onus of ending the war on the Ukrainian leader, while emphasizing that Ukraine must give up Russian-annexed Crimea and its hopes of joining NATO — key Kremlin demands.

European leaders and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will do their best to appeal to President Trump at a meeting in the White House on Monday. Trump officials took to Sunday talk shows to defend Trump’s handling of his meeting with Russian President Putin and claim Trump never went to the meeting hoping for a ceasefire deal,

President Donald Trump shared the "peace letter" from first lady Melania Trump that was hand delivered to Vladimir Putin at the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on Friday.

"We are seeing accommodation more than we've seen in the past, certainly more than we saw in the last administration," Witkoff said. "And that's encouraging. Now we have to build on that."

President Donald Trump dismissed criticism of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska as "fake news" Sunday night on Truth Social, saying the war in Ukraine could be ended "almost immediately" but critics were making it harder to do so.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war,

The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.