Doing so would require the Russian leader to “accept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn’t exist”

Turkey was mentioned as one of the possible venues for a trilateral summit between Trump, Putin, and Zelensky, if the meeting does indeed take place,” the source said. The virtual meeting, arranged by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,

President Trump discussed the possibility of giving Ukraine a “mutual defense” deal similar to the promises outlined in NATO’s Article 5, according to reports.

For years, Donald Trump criticized presidents for empty threats. He often pointed to then-President Barack Obama failing to enforce his “red line” on Syria using chemical weapons. During his first term in 2017, Trump called it a “blank threat” that cost us “in many other parts of the world.”

The disheartening and frustrating fact is that Russia is in a much stronger negotiating position now than they were earlier in the war, when Western officials

When President Trump chose Alaska for Friday’s summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to discuss the war in Ukraine, his supporters suggested that the location offered a nod to savvy deal making. The United States had purchased the territory from Russia in 1867 for about 2 cents an acre.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will hold talks in Alaska next Friday in a bid to end the war in Ukraine, which was triggered by Russia's February 2022 invasion.