(Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war in Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Alexander Darchiev have arrived in Alaska ahead of a planned Trump-Putin summit, Russian state media reported on Aug. 15.

Russia is heading into its talks with the United States in Alaska with a "clear and understandable" stance, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on arrival in Anchorage late Thursday. Much of the groundwork for Friday's meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump was laid during US envoy Steve Witkoff's visit to Moscow last week,