U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 met for nearly three hours at a military base in Alaska as part of a U.S.-led effort to bring Russia and Ukraine into peace talks.
Trump was joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, while Putin was joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and presidential foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov.
In a joint press conference after the summit, both leaders described the meeting as productive, but the two sides did not reach a concrete deal. The U.S. president is due to talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO in the hopes of convening a further meeting to end the war….