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.

President Donald Trump shifted focus from a Ukraine ceasefire toward a more comprehensive peace deal following his Alaska meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Special Envoy Witkoff.

President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for peace talks regarding the Ukraine war.

Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union.

President Donald Trump supports Russian leader Vladimir Putin's proposal for Moscow to take full control of the Donbas and freeze the front lines elsewhere for a deal with Ukraine.

Under the proposed Russian deal, Kyiv would fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the sources said.

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,

Ga., accused Ukrainian President Zelenskyy of trying to sabotage peace talks between President Trump and Russian President Putin by launching drone strikes on Russia.

Steve Witkoff describes the proposal as "game-changing" as Zelensky joins a call with European leaders ahead of his White House visit.