On August 15, 2025, Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, for a high-stakes summit on the Ukraine crisis. Putin endorsed Trump’s claim that the war would not have occurred under his presidency, praising their “business-like and trustworthy” relationship, but no deal emerged. Trump called the talks productive and plans to contact Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO leaders, amid polarized social media reactions praising Trump’s diplomacy or criticizing it as a Russian concession