Trade between Russia and the U.S. started to grow under Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted after meeting his counterpart in Alaska. The upward tick comes after a decade of steep decline that set in amid a bitter geopolitical clash over Moscow’s military intervention in neighboring Ukraine.

Following a high-stakes meeting in Alaska between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, NBC News' Peter Alexander says he is struck to see that Putin has gotten "much of what he wanted" out of the meeting.

Trump said an overall peace agreement, and not a ceasefire, was the best way to end the war between Ukraine and Russia.