At what was billed as an “historic” presidential summit, hastily put together in Alaska on Friday afternoon, the optics were as clear and overshadowing as the vast Chugach mountains glistening over Anchorage in the summer sun.

During the Alaska summit, Donald Trump hand-delivered a ‘peace letter’ from Melania Trump to Putin, which urged the Russian President to ‘singlehandedly restore’ the ‘melodic laughter’ of Ukrainian children living through years of war.

The US president said a peace agreement would be better than a "mere" ceasefire, hours after summit with Putin that produced little.

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Orthodox Christians across Alaska have been taking part in three days of prayer for peace ahead of Friday’s summit there between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which will focus on the war in Ukraine.

Ahead of a meeting with President Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine noted that Russia’s 2014 seizure of Ukrainian land became “a springboard for a new attack.”

President Trump said he would meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House after the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without any breakthrough.

President Donald Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff — one of three American participants in Friday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — described on Sunday several major agreements reached during the Alaska talks that he said created strong momentum toward a peace agreement with Ukraine.