Talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have ended after more than two and a half hours. The leaders met in a three-on-three meeting along with top advisers a for high-stakes summit in Alaska that could determine the trajectory of the war in Ukraine and the fate of European security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s final words at the Alaska summit were delivered with a smile, spoken in an uncharacteristic burst of English.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Friday for a summit in Anchorage, Alaska. The key topic: the war in Ukraine. Trump failed to secure the ceasefire he'd been aiming for,

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bodyguards were reportedly seen carrying his ‘poop suitcases’ to the Alaska Summit in the United States. According to reports, his security team collects his stool and transports it back to Russia during foreign trips.

In Alaska, military parader President Donald Trump literally had U.S. soldiers on their knees to roll out the red carpet for wanted war criminal Vladimir Putin, who Trump greeted with applause as Putin played him like a pawn.

From start to finish, President Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin was rife with pomp and circumstance.

President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin held talks Friday in Alaska about the war in Ukraine. The meeting at a military base in Anchorage could reshape that conflict as well as relations between Moscow and Washington.

“The symbolism of Alaska would be a reminder of how it was possible for the United States and Russia for most of the 19th century to transcend their ideological and political differences and their expansionisms, to have warm, friendly cooperative relations,” says David S. Foglesong, a history professor at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump.