US envoy Steve Witkoff shared new details today about the high-stakes meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska last week, saying that Russian officials made concessions “almost immediately,” CNN reports.

“There were concessions almost immediately made on the part of the Russians in the first meeting in Alaska,” Witkoff told Fox News. “Part of getting those concessions was learning whether we were going to be able to see the Russians prepared to be more accommodating.”

Witkoff added that Trump and his team were focused on a long-term peace deal rather than a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine during the meeting in Anchorage.

“We stayed there for quite some time because we actually made progress on how we might get to a peace deal,” Witkoff said. “The [US] president began to sense in this meeting in Alaska that we had a lot of the precursors agreed to for a peace deal, so why not pursue an entire peace deal?”