At what was billed as an “historic” presidential summit, hastily put together in Alaska on Friday afternoon, the optics were as clear and overshadowing as the vast Chugach mountains glistening over Anchorage in the summer sun.

During the Alaska summit, Donald Trump hand-delivered a ‘peace letter’ from Melania Trump to Putin, which urged the Russian President to ‘singlehandedly restore’ the ‘melodic laughter’ of Ukrainian children living through years of war.

The US president said a peace agreement would be better than a "mere" ceasefire, hours after summit with Putin that produced little.

The following is the transcript of an interview with Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan airing on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Aug. 17, 2025.

ANCHORAGE—Dozens of Russian Orthodox faithful joined in prayer ahead of Friday’s summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, hoping for peace between Russia and Ukraine. “Let our leaders yearn for peace when they meet,

President Donald Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff — one of three American participants in Friday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — described on Sunday several major agreements reached during the Alaska talks that he said created strong momentum toward a peace agreement with Ukraine.

DONALD Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands as they landed in Alaska for a historic peace summit on the Ukraine war. Trump’s Air Force One landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson just 20