Even though no ceasefire deal was reached during the summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, “a lot of progress has been made,” Dan Rice, a former special adviser to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and president of American University Kyiv, told Newsmax Saturday.

“First of all, you can’t solve this war without dialogue, and this is the first step in dialogue,” Rice said on Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.” “As much as we’d all love to see Putin hanging from a rope, basically you can’t humiliate a dictator with nuclear weapons in public. So President Trump chose diplomacy.”

Rice said Trump likely told Putin during their meeting that the United States, NATO, and Ukraine do not want the war to continue. He added that Trump also likely warned that if the fighting does not stop, the United States will provide Ukraine with more weapons than it has supplied so far.

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