Trump insisted progress was made during meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin but "we didn't get there".
Trump insisted progress was made but "we didn't get there" after three hours of talks, while Vladimir Putin said he was "sincerely interested" in ending the war - neither took questions from the media.
Putin got plenty from this summit, without making any noticeable compromises.After the summit, Nato leaders including the UK's Keir Starmer joined a call with Trump while he flew back from Alaska on Air Force One - Zelensky said it was "long and substantive".
Meanwhile, in Kyiv, there will be relief that no deal was made without Ukraine.
Following his meeting with Putin and phone call with Nato leaders - including Ukraine's Zelensky - US President Donald Trump says "it was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement".
In an update on his Truth Social platform, Trump says this would end the war and be more substantial than "a mere ceasefire agreement".
The US president adds that he had "a great and very successful day in Alaska".
Trump also confirms - as we heard earlier from Zelensky - that the Ukrainian president will be flying to Washington DC for talks in the Oval Office on Monday.
"If all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin. Potentially, millions of people’s lives will be saved," he says.
Summit amounts to a clear win for Putin
Trump wanted to walk out of the summit with agreement from Putin on a ceasefire - the same demand he has made of him since March.
But he didn’t get it. He says he got progress, but would not say what or how.
So, as the war’s architect, Putin got an effective American embrace, a red carpet welcome and presidential applause.
Trump, in return, got nothing to present as a tangible achievement. The summit, then, amounts to a clear win for Putin.
The Russian president also used the moment to warn the Europeans not to throw a “wrench” into his ties with Trump.
That was his attempt to sharpen divisions between the Trump administration and America’s European allies - something he has tried to leverage repeatedly under Trump.
But he went further still. In an extraordinary statement, he echoed Trump’s long-stated claim that the war would not have happened if Trump had been president (rather than his predecessor, Joe Biden).
Putin will know this taps directly into Trump’s false claim, that still resonates with much of his base, that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him.
In a few quick sentences Putin, on US soil, was using the stage provided him by Trump to exploit and deepen the divisions between the US and Europe - and those within America itself.
