Live Updates: Trump Meets Putin

7:15 Press conference has finished and reporters were not given an opportunity to ask questions, according to White House Pool reports. “I believe we had a very productive meeting,” Trump said. “There’s no deal until there’s a deal.”

As Putin spoke, Trump mostly looked straight ahead and kept a straight face, only glancing at Putin a few times, including when Putin referenced the previous US administration. Trump grinned at one point when Putin spoke about bilateral trade.

7:05PM – Press conference with Trump and Putin has began.

7:00PM – Trump called Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky after finishing his private meeting with Putin.

5:40PM – Trump and Putin have now spent two hours together.

5PM – Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and Trump’s 2016 rival, said on the “Raging Moderates” podcast Friday that if he ends the war in Ukraine without Ukraine giving up territory to Russia, she would nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.

“Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, where Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighbor country, trying to change the borders — if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity,” Clinton said.

“To make it clear that there must be a ceasefire. There will be no exchange of territory. And that, over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he’s seized in order to demonstrate his good-faith efforts, let us say, not to threaten European security,” she continued. “If we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the United States. I think that’s a terrible, terrible precedent.”

4:40PM – Putin and Trump have been together for over an hour.

4:18PM – The meeting in Anchorage, Alaska is ongoing, and it is not clear how long it will last.

According to CBS, the duration of the talks will likely depend on how discussions unfold and the amount of progress made on the extensive list of agenda items. Earlier in the day, a Kremlin spokesman suggested the meetings could last six to seven hours.

Following the current bilateral session, a lunch meeting is planned with additional participants, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

A joint press conference with President Trump and Putin is expected after that larger gathering.

According to the official White House schedule, the president is set to depart Alaska at 5:45 p.m. local time, which is 9:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Under that timetable, his arrival back at the White House would be around 4:30 a.m.

4:00PM Video footage of the meeting was released.

3:50PM – Russian media released footage of The tight security presence surrounding the meeting.

3:40PM: Reporters were briefly ushered into a room where US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were starting their bilateral talks with senior aides, only to be quickly escorted back out.

Putin once again ignored questions from the press, including, “Will you agree to a ceasefire?” and “Will you commit to not killing any more civilians?”

It’s rare for Putin to face direct inquiries from foreign journalists. According to CNN, Putin appeared confused at the questions and is seen shouting something at the press, but his words were not reported as of this time.

Trump also refrained from taking any questions.

Seated with President Trump were Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, and a translator, while Putin was accompanied by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, policy adviser Yury Ushakova, and a translator.

3:20pm – The two leaders met on the red carpet after stepping off their respective presidential aircraft.They shook hands, posed for photographs, and refrained from answering questions from the press. Overhead, American military aircraft, including fighter jets and what appeared to be a B-2 stealth bomber, performed a flyover.

Trump and Putin rode together in the “Beast,” the US Presidential car.

3:20pm – Trump motorcade traveling to meeting point.

3:05pm – Putin lands in Alaska.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will not be present at the meeting, stressed that Ukraine will be “counting on America.” If the summit proves successful, President Trump has indicated he may arrange a three-way meeting that would include Zelensky.