“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 US president conceded the war in Ukraine was "tough to solve" after several days of high-level talks.

Trump also expressed optimism about resolving the conflict in Ukraine