In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump.

Russia already controls a fifth of Ukraine, including about three-quarters of Donetsk province, which it first entered in 2014.

The meeting represented a diplomatic victory for Putin after Western leaders ostracized him at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Just a week earlier, Trump was threatening him with new sanctions.

Former NSC Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz discusses the ramifications of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and the next phase of efforts to end the war in Ukraine on ‘Fox News Live.’

One of the documents indicated Trump planned to give the Russian president an “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for nearly three hours in Anchorage, Alaska, but did not appear to reach a firm agreement on ending the war in Ukraine. Nicolle Wallace,

Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.

President Trump and aides have raised and lowered expectations for his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin, making the meeting hard to grade.