"Putin is still milking Trump’s fanboy affection. He was the big winner today because he didn't have to compromise."

Trump met with Putin in Alaska on Friday but walked away without securing any deal over the Ukraine war. The president lashed out at critics of his summit with Putin in a post on Truth Social, suggesting that it was not a “failure” to invite Putin to the United States.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders are meeting President Trump days after the U.S. and Russian leaders met face to face at a highly anticipated summit in Alaska. That meeting

Trump officials defended the president’s peace push after meeting Putin, calling progress “game-changing” ahead of Zelensky’s visit to Washington.

NBC’s Kristen Welker played a clip on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” of Rubio criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Rubio suggested in the clip that the U.S. should not “cut a deal” with Putin, saying that he was a “liar.”

Pursuing Peace” — plastered on the wall, President Donald Trump welcomed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for a summit in Alaska on Friday whose results remained entirely unclear once it abruptly ended.

Trump didn’t end the fighting in Ukraine, but he picked up some praise from Putin about the Republican’s own domestic political fights.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States and Russia “didn’t get there” on a deal regarding the war in Ukraine, even as he called his three-hour meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin “extremely productive.

In Alaska, military parader President Donald Trump literally had U.S. soldiers on their knees to roll out the red carpet for wanted war criminal Vladimir Putin, who Trump greeted with applause as Putin played him like a pawn.

An Anchorage man has reportedly received a new motorcycle as a personal gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The gesture occurred during last week's summit between Putin and President Donald Trump in the Alaskan city, according to a report by Russian state television.

"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."