Talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have ended after more than two and a half hours. The leaders met in a three-on-three meeting along with top advisers a for high-stakes summit in Alaska that could determine the trajectory of the war in Ukraine and the fate of European security.

The news conference came after a grand arrival at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage, where Vladimir Putin arrived to a red carpet - the kind of welcome usually reserved for close US allies.