until there's a deal. US President Donald Trump said
on Friday he had made great progress during a meeting
with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, but no
peace deal was reached on Ukraine in the nearly 3-hour
summit. The two presidents left with a vow to
meet again next time. It's not clear whether the
talks had produced meaningful steps towards the ceasefire in the
deadliest conflict in Europe in 80 years, a goal
that Trump had made at the outset. Trump and
spoke for a few minutes to reporters and took no
questions. I will call up NATO in a little
while. I will call up. The various people
that I think are appropriate and I'll of course call
up President Zelinsky and tell him about today's meeting.
It's ultimately up to them. Putin said he hoped
the agreements reached at the summit could be a launch
pad for settling the war and restoring ties between Russia
and the US, though he didn't specify what the
two sides had agreed on. Had a fantastic relationship
with President Putin with Vladimir. This was the first
time the two had met since 2019. For Putin
, the summit was already a big win regardless of
its outcome, signaling Moscow's return to international diplomacy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was not invited to
Friday's summit, said that the meeting should Opened the
way for a just peace, but added that Russia
was continuing to wage war. A Russian ballistic missile
earlier struck Ukraine's Dnipro Petrovsk region, killing one person
and wounding another. An estimated 1.2 million people from
both sides have been killed in the fighting. Trump's
envoy to Ukraine said earlier this year.