Putin, Trump and Alaska
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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,
Donald Trump's meeting with Russian president Vladmir Putin was either a "disaster" or a success, depending on whom you ask — and on Sunday NBC's Kristen Welker asked both Sen. Chris Murphy and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.
First lady Melania Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Put to protect the innocence of children in a letter made public by U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday.
"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.
Putin agrees that US, Europe could offer NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, Trump envoy says
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,