US President Donald Trump has been reportedly ready to cut short talks with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska due to Putin's intransigence over his demand to annex the entire Donetsk Oblast. Source: Axios,

Trump has visited Alaska several times as president, pushed for expanded oil, gas and mining permits there, and even got funding for new polar icebreakers, a popular stance in a state he won with 54% of the vote in 2024.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States and Russia “didn’t get there” on a deal regarding the war in Ukraine, even as he called his three-hour meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin “extremely productive.

The high-stakes summit at the Anchorage Air Force base comes as the U.S. seeks a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.

The meeting is notable in how American churches are embroiled in controversies involving Orthodoxy in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to the US for the Alaska Summit, his first in a decade, has sparked intrigue beyond his discussions with President Trump.

However U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff revealed that Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and its European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee at his meeting with Trump.

Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza predicts Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next move after his summit with President Donald Trump in Alaska and more on ‘Fox News Live.’