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       Watch again as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a press conference after “high stakes” talks on Ukraine in Alaska on Friday (15 August).

       The Anchorage summit was held at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and marked the US president and Russian leader’s first one-on-one meeting in six years.

       Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who was notably absent from the discussions, said that he was “counting on America” to “open a real path toward a just peace”.

       At a press conference after the summit, the US president told reporters that the two leaders had not reached an agreement after they emerged from nearly three hours of talks, although he said the meeting had been “very productive”.

       “We've made some headway. So there's no deal until there's a deal. I will call up NATO in a little while. I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate. And I'll, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell him about today's meeting,” Mr Trump said.

       Neither Putin nor Trump used the word “ceasefire” in the short statements they made to the assembled media, before they shook hands and left the stage without taking questions.