No deal and no answers after Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine in Alaska

"There’s no deal until there’s a deal." 

Donald Trump greets Russia's  Vladimir Putin Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Donald Trump left more questions than answers on Friday as he claimed “great progress” in his high-stakes summit with Vladimir Putin but admitted that no deal had been reached to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The US president also suggested that it was now up to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “get it done” and that a meeting would be set up between the Ukrainian president and Putin, which Trump might attend.