President Donald Trump said Friday that he had an “extremely productive” meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in high-stakes talks to reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.

Trump said a framework was in place for a peace deal to end the more than 3-year-old war, “but there’s no deal until there’s a deal.”

“I believe we had a very productive meeting,” Trump told reporters in a joint appearance with Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. The event aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 online streaming platform from.

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