Live updates: Trump meets Putin in Alaska for Ukraine talks

A self-styled peacemaker and dealmaker, it appears Trump will leave Alaska with neitherpublished at 00:27 British Summer Time 16 August

00:27 BST 16 August

Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent, in Anchorage

“There’s no deal until there’s a deal,” Donald Trump said early in his post-summit remarks here in Anchorage.

It was a roundabout way of conceding that after several hours of talks, there is no deal. No ceasefire. Nothing tangible to report.

The president said that he and Vladimir Putin made “some great progress” – but with few details about what that might be, it’s left to the world’s imagination.

“We didn’t get there,” he later said, before exiting the room without taking any questions from the hundreds of gathered reporters.

Trump travelled a long way to produce only vagaries, even if America’s European allies and Ukrainian officials may be relieved he did not offer unilateral concessions or agreements that could have undermined future negotiations.

For the man who likes to tout himself as a peacemaker and a dealmaker, it appears that Trump will leave Alaska with neither. There are also no indications that a future summit involving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is forthcoming – Putin’s “next time in Moscow” quip about their next meeting aside.

While Trump had less at stake during these negotiations than Ukraine or Russia, it still will put a dent in his domestic and international prestige after earlier promises that this meeting had only a 25% chance of failure.