Putin meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, as U.S. works with European allies on Ukraine security guarantees for potential peace deal.

For the moment, what came from Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska and the mini-NATO session in Washington is that Russia is no longer facing unified Western demands f

President Trump said Tuesday that he didn’t call Russian President Vladimir Putin in front of the European leaders at the White House the day prior to avoid disrespecting the Russian leader. “I didn’t do it in front of them — I thought that would be disrespectful to President Putin.