The US President ended the summit saying there’s ‘no deal until there’s a deal’ after confessing there were ‘still things to be agreed to’ following peace negotiations
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have walked away from their crunch talks without having made a deal this evening, with “ceasefire” having not featured once in their public address.
The two presidents were locked in negotiations for nearly three hours this evening after touching down in Anchorage, Alaska, in a bid to hammer out a peace deal for Ukraine.
It had been suggested that they could spend up to eight hours locked in bilateral negotiations while hoping to end the now three-year-long conflict.
Mr Trump admitted after an initial address by Putin – who discussed the two nations’ “neighbourly” links – that the two had failed to hash out an official deal despite speaking for nearly three hours.
The President thanked his Russian counterpart for the “profound” statement and described their meeting as “very productive”.
He said: “There were many, many points that we agreed on. I would say a couple of big ones, but we haven’t quite got there, we’ve made some headway. There’s no deal until there’s a deal.”
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