Trump-Putin summit: Zelenskyy to travel to DC on Monday to meet with President Trump

Speaking in Russian through a State Department interpreter, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke first at the joint press briefing.

He began talking about how Russia and the U.S. are "close neighbors" and that this can mark a new stage of rebuilding and fostering "mutually beneficial and equal ties."

Putin said he has "every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come to the end of the conflict in Ukraine."

After meeting for more than two hours with their respective delegations, President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin are now holding a joint news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

A spokesperson for the Russian foreign minister boasted about the red carpet rolled out for the arrival of President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

"The Western media in a state that can be described as insanity bordering on complete madness, for three years, they have been reporting on Russia's isolation, but today they witnessed the red carpet that greeted the Russian President in the United States," the spokesperson said in a statement.

The bilateral meeting between President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin continues with their respective delegations.

What was expected to be a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin expanded to include White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the U.S. side while Putin was accompanied by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov.

Editor's note: This story had been corrected to reflect that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine was not included in the bilateral meeting.