Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter calling for peace in Ukraine, having her husband Donald Trump deliver it to Vladimir Putin.

The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) took to social media to release a statement about Putin and his desire to take land from Ukraine. They stated that the Russian leader has reportedly made 'maximalist demands' which includes Ukrainian forces withdrawing from four of its oblasts in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson.

Vladimir Putin is eyeing more than just Ukraine, Anthony Albanese has warned after a call with European leaders.

Steve Witkoff says Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate.

Under the proposed Russian deal, Kyiv would fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the sources said.

Trump met with Putin in Alaska on Friday but walked away without securing any deal over the Ukraine war. The president lashed out at critics of his summit with Putin in a post on Truth Social, suggesting that it was not a “failure” to invite Putin to the United States.

“There’s no deal until there is a deal,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in Anchorage, Alaska, following a meeting between Trump, Putin, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov. The summit lasted about two hours and 30 minutes.

President Trump said that he and Russia's Vladimir Putin made progress in talks to end the war in Ukraine, but the two leaders did not announce any steps toward reaching a ceasefire.

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.