Alaska summit: no deal agreed at Trump-Putin meeting but land swap for ceasefire still on the table

By Olena Borodyna, Senior Geopolitical Risks Advisor, ODI Global

Hours before meeting Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump said he wanted to see a ceasefire in Ukraine and was “not going to be happy” if it wasn’t agreed today. The US president appears to have left Alaska with no such agreement in place.

“We didn’t get there”, Trump told reporters, before later vaguely asserting that he and Putin had “made great progress”. Trump is likely to return to the idea…

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