Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed he and President Donald Trump came to an agreement to "pave the path to peace in Ukraine," but didn't reveal what the agreement entails, and the two departed Friday evening without taking questions.
Trump met Friday afternoon with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss ending the invasion of Ukraine. After a roughly three-hour closed-door meeting, Putin detailed the history of the contacts between the Kremlin and Washington this year, before claiming they came to a deal to "pave the path to peace."
Further details weren't disclosed.
Trump, meanwhile, added, “We haven’t quite got there, but we’ve got some headway. There’s no deal until there’s a deal.”
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins noted after the meeting that it appeared the summit was not the outcome Trump had hoped.
"I flashed him a thumbs-up to signal, 'Did the meeting go well? What did you think?' He kind of looked at me and shrugged his shoulders, Jake [Tapper]. And offered a little bit of a half smile," she said.
Collins noted there was little indication of what happened in the lengthy meeting.
"Clearly not the expectation that President Trump was hoping for when he came here," she concluded.