Trump, Putin Summit in Alaska
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It was a welcome tailored for a close friend, not a war criminal, and it looked to the Ukrainians like their nightmare.
A look at some moments in Anchorage, Alaska, where President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have arrived, with delegations in tow, for a high-stakes summit on the war in Ukraine.
One of the documents indicated Trump planned to give the Russian president an “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”
Trump and Putin “looked like buddies” during their initial greetings in Alaska Friday – but the dynamic had shifted by the end of their visit, according to a body language expert.
Pickup trucks, salmon fishing and grizzly bear displays give way to FBI agents and $1,000 hotel rooms as Anchorage’s biggest political moment unfolds. “All eyes” on the state.
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.
President Donald Trump has offered his critics, the world and U.S. allies contrasting images on how America treats its friends and adversaries after failing to broker a ceasefire in Russia's unprovoked war to annex Ukraine.
The Trump administration sought to temper expectations around the president's meeting with Putin heading into Friday. Trump said in the past that he would end the Russia-Ukraine w