President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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.

Putin’s delegation gifted a retired fire inspector from Anchorage a Ural Gear Up motorcycle with a sidecar, one week after a television crew’s interview with the man went viral in Russia.

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump turned in a masterclass during Friday's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The post Trump’s Treasury Secretary Insists President Did Bang-Up Job in Alaska: ‘Had President Putin on His Heels’ first appeared on Mediaite.

The act of meeting and the nature of the interaction were such that the summit did considerable damage to the U.S. and broader western position on Ukraine.

At the abbreviated press conference following the three hour meeting, it was Putin who carried the day. His lecture — not statement — recognized the great friendship between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the war and memorials in Alaska and Russia marking fallen aviators.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that it was clear at Friday's U.S.-Russia Alaska summit that U.S. President Donald Trump and his team sincerely wanted to achieve a long-term and sustainable peace in Ukraine.