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Trump, Putin end short summit without ceasefire deal in Ukraine

Warm welcome for Russia’s Putin at meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska, but no deal on ending Ukraine war.

Al Jazeera · Aug 16, 2025

Trump hand-delivered Putin a letter from First Lady Melania on ‘plight of children in Ukraine and Russia’: White House

The Russian president has been accused of unlawfully deporting children and transferring them from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2025

Trump's aggressive push to take over DC policing may be a template for an approach in other cities

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2025

‘No deal’: Putin met a tougher Trump in Alaska than the one he steamrolled in Helsinki seven years ago

NEWS ANALYSIS: If Vladimir Putin was hoping Donald Trump was still on his side against Ukraine, he left their summit very disappointed, Andrew Feinberg reports from Anchorage, Alaska

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2025

‘Putin clearly won’: Pundits say meeting was ‘bad for Americans’ after Trump’s ‘no deal’ Alaska summit

‘Putin achieved most of what he wanted and Trump achieved very little,’ the U.S. president’s former national security adviser John Bolton said

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2025

Trump–Putin Alaska Summit Ends Without Ukraine Ceasefire Deal As US President Says 'We've Made Some Headway'

On Friday, the high-profile meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without a deal to end or pause the war in Ukraine, leaving Moscow with a diplomatic boost but little tangible progress toward peace.

Benzinga · Aug 16, 2025

Now we know just how useless Trump’s Alaska summit really was ... to everyone but Vladimir Putin

NEWS ANALYSIS: A nebulous amount of ‘progress’ has been made, and the two might meet again. But it’s pretty clear here that Trump got played in Alaska, writes Holly Baxter — and Putin got exactly what he came for

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2025

Trump news at a glance: Trump claims ‘great progress’ in Putin talks, DC police takeover scaled back

US president leaves more questions than answers after summit on ending Ukraine war with Vladimir Putin; White House agrees to scale back takeover of DC police department – key US politics stories from 15 August 2025

The Guardian - US · Aug 16, 2025

He rolled out the red carpet for an indicted war criminal and all Trump got was an invitation to Moscow

ANALYSIS: Putin humiliated Trump and failed to agreed a ceasefire. Now the US president has to sell that to his allies, explains World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2025

Putin strokes Trump’s ego, echoing claim that if he’d beaten Biden in 2020 there would be no war in Ukraine

The unsubstantiated argument is one Trump has repeated many times since he decided to run again last year

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2025