After leaving Alaska, Trump says he would prefer to "go directly to a peace agreement" to end the war in Ukraine as he prepares to meet Zelensky on Monday.

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.

President Donald Trump supports Russian leader Vladimir Putin's proposal for Moscow to take full control of the Donbas and freeze the front lines elsewhere for a deal with Ukraine.

In a shift, Trump now aligns more closely with Putin than allies in Europe in calling for final talks before a ceasefire

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.

Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska.

Trump’s phony narrative about the Russian invasion is only the latest in a long line of false claims from the president about the war.

President Trump and Russian President Putin gave a joint press conference after their summit on ending the Ukraine war, but few details were garnered from the brief press event. Staff writer for The Atlantic Tom Nichols,

“I often say that if I could do nothing else except chop for the rest of my days, I would be happy,” the chef Olia Hercules writes in “Strong Roots,” a memoir of her Ukrainian heritage that gives fresh charge to that dull old adjective “bittersweet.” “It’s meditative, it’s calming. Magical, wondrous things happen when you chop.”

In eastern Ukraine, quiet nights in the dim corridors of a front-line medical post can shatter in an instant. It was not an isolated case, but part of a broader shift in the war where medical evacuation has become increasingly difficult.