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

The first lady did not attend the summit between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

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

Following a high-stakes meeting in Alaska between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, NBC News' Peter Alexander says he is struck to see that Putin has gotten "much of what he wanted" out of the meeting.

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin exhibited concerning leg twitches while speaking with President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, for their summit on Friday, August 15. While standing toe-to-toe with Trump,

In a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, first lady Melania Trump urged him to think about the future for world's children

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grasp of English is steady, though thickly accented, giving him more than enough skill to speak to President Trump and build a rapport one on one. Though Putin is known to speak German fluently,

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.

Reports of the Russian president's demands have emerged following the summit in Alaska - as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares to fly to Washington DC to see Donald Trump for the next stage of talks.