Putin’s delegation gifted a retired fire inspector from Anchorage a Ural Gear Up motorcycle with a sidecar, one week after a television crew’s interview with the man went viral in Russia.

The act of meeting and the nature of the interaction were such that the summit did considerable damage to the U.S. and broader western position on Ukraine.

At the abbreviated press conference following the three hour meeting, it was Putin who carried the day. His lecture — not statement — recognized the great friendship between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the war and memorials in Alaska and Russia marking fallen aviators.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that it was clear at Friday's U.S.-Russia Alaska summit that U.S. President Donald Trump and his team sincerely wanted to achieve a long-term and sustainable peace in Ukraine.

For years, Donald Trump criticized presidents for empty threats. He often pointed to then-President Barack Obama failing to enforce his “red line” on Syria using chemical weapons. During his first term in 2017, Trump called it a “blank threat” that cost us “in many other parts of the world.”

President Trump’s trip to Alaska to meet with Vladimir Putin was unsuccessful, as he accepted Putin’s demands for territorial annexations and failed to secure a peace deal, leaving

President Donald Trump said Monday during talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders that a potential ceasefire and who gets Ukrainian territory seized by Russia

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