India has welcomed the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska as a positive step toward peace, reiterating its call for dialogue and diplomacy to end the Ukraine conflict. Ahead of the meeting, PM Modi spoke with both Zelensky and Putin,

Germany “welcomed” the president’s efforts to “achieve a just and lasting peace,” while the UK said the Trump-Putin summit represented “important progress."

In a subsequent briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a source familiar with the discussion cited Trump as saying the Russian leader had offered to freeze most front lines if Kyiv's forces ceded all of Donetsk, the industrial region that is one of Moscow's main targets.

Hours after the Alaska summit, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the best way to end the war between Russia and Ukraine is through a direct peace settlement rather than just a ceasefire, which often does not succeed, and expressed hope that these diplomatic efforts would save millions of lives.

European leaders on Saturday said they welcomed President Trump’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine but pushed for more “ironclad security guarantees” after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.