Just south of the Arctic Circle today, a possible thaw in normally frosty U.S.-Russia relations.

For years in the west, Vladimir Putin has been a pariah, but today he was a passenger in President Trump's limousine.

The two presidents and their staff posed for the cameras before their meeting but said nothing in a high-stake summit that

could help decide Ukraine's fate.

U.S. officials tell PBS NewsHour, one of President Trump's main goals is a ceasefire, the

same priority as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who today asked President Trump

to stand strong. We count on the U.S.'s strong position.

Everything will depend on it.

Russians consider U.S. force precisely.

With Fox News as Brett Baer before the meeting, President Trump set a stark bar.

I won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire.

Now, I say this, and I've said it from the beginning, this is really setting the table today.

We're going to have another meeting if things work out, which will be very soon.

Or we're not going to have any more meetings at all, maybe ever.

But Russia arrives in Alaska confident.

Its soldiers have achieved a significant advance near a key logistics hub in eastern Ukraine.

And publicly, Moscow is demanding the map redrawn, with international recognition of Russian

control of Crimea and four Ukrainian regions, including land that Ukraine still holds.

Russia suggested giving up small territory controls in other regions.

President Trump says he will talk land swaps with Putin, but said today the final decision

was not his.

They'll be discussed, but I've got to let Ukraine make that decision.

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