“Ukraine – Russia”

Maybe something will come of it, maybe some progress has been made but they have told us little.

There was no joint press conference only an empty joint statement.

No questions were allowed.

President Trump announces major progress made during peace summit with Putin:

“I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many, many points that we agreed on… There's no deal until there's a deal… We really made some great progress.”

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 15, 2025

Fox News says Trump’s meeting with Putin “was very unusual… not good” and that Putin “steamrolled” Trump.

Disgraceful propaganda. They want the war to continue so badly. pic.twitter.com/ExF8MG2Fc6

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 15, 2025

WOW! Vladimir Putin is making Democrats FURIOUS after saying: "When President Trump says if he was the president back then, there would be no war…it would indeed be SO. I can confirm that."pic.twitter.com/sKWmR9l1l9

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 15, 2025

President Putin’s talks in Alaska with President Trump on Friday will be his seventh US-Russia summit meeting since he came to power 25 years ago. It will, however, be the first to take place during a full-scale Russian invasion of a European country.

Trump has already had at least six telephone conversations with Putin since he returned to the White House in January. Critics have asked why the Russian leader is being rewarded with a summit on US soil while his forces are attacking Ukraine.

However, in Kyiv, Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Zelensky, said that face-to-face talks with Putin would help Trump grasp the depths of the Russian leader’s irrationality and his desire to keep fighting, despite massive losses of his own troops.

Donald Trump is preparing to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare earth minerals to incentivise him to end the war in Ukraine.

The US president will arrive at the much-anticipated meeting with his Russian counterpart on Friday armed with a number of money-making opportunities for Putin.

They will include opening up Alaska’s natural resources to Moscow and lifting some of the American sanctions on Russia’s aviation industry, The Telegraph can reveal.

Donald Trump has warned Vladimir Putin there would be “severe consequences” if he did not agree to end his war on Ukraine at their summit in Alaska on Friday.

The US president revealed on Wednesday his intention to seek an immediate second meeting with Putin, this time involving Volodymyr Zelensky, after their one-on-one talks in Alaska.

Mr Trump said: “If the first one goes okay, we’ll have a quick second one. I would like to do it almost immediately, and we’ll have a quick second meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky and myself, if they’d like to have me there.”

Almost half of Canadians believe the federal government is providing the right amount of support to Ukraine in the war against Russia, while 14 per cent think Canada is not supportive enough, according to a new poll.

The poll, which was conducted by Leger for the Metropolis Institute and the Association for Canadian Studies, compared Canadian and American opinions about the war, which started in 2014, but reached a new height in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.

European Union leaders made a rallying call to defend Ukraine’s freedom to decide its own future in advance of their virtual summit with Donald Trump – convened to discuss US strategy before the president’s talks with Vladimir Putin on Friday.

With the exception of Hungary, all EU leaders signed a joint statement, with Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, also calling for the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to attend the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on Friday.

Trump insists his meeting with Putin is a “feel-out” to gauge the Russian leader’s willingness to compromise, but European leaders fear Trump will be lured into a joint declaration with Moscow that involves irretrievable concessions before substantive talks between Ukraine and Russia.

Ukraine could agree to stop fighting and cede territory already held by Russia as part of a European-backed plan for peace.

Volodymyr Zelensky told European leaders that they must reject any settlement proposed by Donald Trump which sees them giving up Ukrainian land they still hold – but that Ukrainian territory in Russia’s control could be on the table.

This would mean freezing the frontline where it is and handing Russia de-facto control of the territory it occupies in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea.

Leaders are lobbying JD Vance with an alternative path to peace, fearing the meeting with Putin could redraw the map

European leaders were pulling together an alternative peace plan for Ukraine on Saturday night before Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

The US president will meet Putin on American soil without President Zelensky, to seek an end to the war. Trump has strongly suggested a deal would involve Kyiv conceding territory, but in an address to the nation yesterday morning, Zelensky insisted that Ukrainians “will not gift their land to the occupier”.

Hours later JD Vance, the US vice-president, outlined Trump’s plan for the summit to senior European and Ukrainian officials at a meeting co-hosted by David Lammy at Chevening, the foreign secretary’s mansion in Kent.

In his attempts to end the war in Ukraine, President Trump has struggled to pin down Moscow to a deal he once boasted he would achieve within 24 hours of taking office.

After veering from optimism to despair and back again, the US leader is hoping for a summit in the coming days with President Putin, followed by three-way talks that would include President Zelensky of Ukraine.

Ten years after Ilya Ponomarev fled from Russia, the Putin government launched its fifth assassination attempt, leaving his Ukrainian home in ruins while the opposition leader and his wife were rushed, covered in blood, to the hospital. Three hundred sixty-eight days later, Ponomarev sat down with The American Spectator in Washington, D.C., for an exclusive interview.