Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war in Ukraine.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not reach a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine after talks in Alaska on Friday, as the two leaders offered scant details on what was discussed but heaped praise on one another.

Eight pages of official government papers were left behind on printers at the four-star Hotel Captain Cook on Friday. The hotel is located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

The US president will meet his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington on Monday in the wake of his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Some people wondered if the president was actually announcing he plans to give Alaska back to Russia during Friday's upcoming meeting.

Alaska summit between Trump and Putin featured military displays and diplomatic talks about Ukraine conflict but produced only modest progress toward peace

Trump said that both Putin and Zelenskyy are going to set up a meeting to try to reach a ceasefire in order to end the war in Ukraine.

Trump’s desire for Ukraine to give up its remaining territory in this key eastern region to end the war could remain elusive. Ahead of the Alaska meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy firmly dismissed such a possibility,