President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine.

The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.

Viewers of Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska this week would be reasonable to wonder whether they had traveled back to 1938, says Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza. "If there is one clear lesson from history,

Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.

The U.S. president declared Saturday that he would forego his previous demand for an initial ceasefire, making it easier for Putin to continue the war and dictate terms of a peace agreement at gunpoint.

The US president will meet his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington on Monday in the wake of his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin on Friday.

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting for a high-stakes summit to discuss the war in Ukraine and the fate of European security

Donald Trump hand-delivered a personal 'peace letter' written by First Lady Melania Trump to the Russian President during their meeting in Alaska. The letter told Vladimir Putin it was "time" to protect the children of the world.