Putin has such an arrangement with Belarus and might be satisfied with a Ukraine that’s not fully sovereign, militarily weak and outside of NATO. At the Alaska summit, Putin not only mentioned Ukraine as a “brotherly nation,” but also emphasized that “the situation in Ukraine has to do with fundamental threats to Russian security.”

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war,

US President Donald Trump also advocated for a direct peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, emphasising that "Russia is a very big power, and they're not”.

President Donald Trump has taken aim at MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace in a bizarre social media rant. The drama started when 79-year-old Trump kicked off his Sunday morning with a cryptic post on Truth Social. “Bela,” he wrote, leaving his followers to debate the meaning of the word.

Suddenly, after Alaska, Trump claimed that “mere ceasefires” were unreliable and that only a “final peace agreement” would do. In other words, in exchange for nothing, Putin got a propaganda victory and convinced Trump, at least for now, to adopt his preferred path to “negotiations.”

He said European allies were willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine as part of a security guarantee, and that the U.S. is "willing to help them with things," likely with su

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said “it’s possible” that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends the upcoming meeting between President Trump and