Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war in Ukraine.

The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters.

Steve Witkoff praised President Donald Trump's negotiations with Russian President Putin in Alaska, calling them a significant success.

In the early hours of Saturday morning following a summit in Alaska between the leaders of Russia and the United States, senior politicians in Moscow were quick to trumpet the meeting as a win for Russia and its narrative of the war in Ukraine.

The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for Moscow. Once Russian territory, Alaska was sold by Alexander II in 1867 for $7.

Government documents with details about meeting schedules and seating charts − as well as an extravagant menu − were accidentally left in a hotel printer.

The latest attempt to bring an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine has been dubbed a “win for Putin” after President Donald Trump walked away from demands for an immediate ceasefire.

In particular, cutting off the “shadow fleet” of tankers that deliver Russia’s oil under the radar would send the war economy into a “deep financial crisis,” according to Robin Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former chief economist at the Institute of International Finance.