President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged from a nearly three-hour meeting on the Ukraine war and struck a cordial tone in brief public statements, but left without announcing a ceasefire or peace agreement.
“There’s no deal until there’s a deal,” Trump said.
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The White House had said there would be a news conference after the closed-door meeting, but both men walked offstage after 12 minutes without taking questions from the scores of American and Russian reporters in attendance.
Trump hosted the summit at a military base in Alaska in an audacious bid to broker a peace deal and stop Russia’s three-year war with Ukraine and its ever-rising body count. It was not immediately clear wha