Putin, Trump and Alaska
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Several hundred people gathered for a pro-Ukraine rally in Anchorage, Alaska, where U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to meet Friday. The high-stakes summit —
It only makes sense that we’ve met here, because our countries though separated by the ocean are close neighbors,” Putin said in Anchorage.
Following President Donald Trump’s Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, locals gathered on Friday to send a message to world leaders: “don’t abandon Ukraine.”
The first US-Russia summit in four years is set to be held on Friday against the backdrop of Cold War nostalgia and local protests, as US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are arriving to discuss the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, but 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in Alaska will be watching with trepidation.
Over 300 hundred protests were held Saturday against President Trump’s redistricting plan in Texas.
A landmark meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska concluded with no comprehensive deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.