Putin, Donald Trump and Ukraine
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More than a dozen protests broke out statewide as President Trump and Russian President Putin met on Anchorage’s military base.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, met in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15 for one of the most consequential in-person summits in years. The meeting, which lasted for nearly three hours, ended without a concrete deal.
Trump Putin Alaska meet over Ukraine is raising eyebrows across Europe, with some analysts warning it could echo the 1945 Yalta Conference, when global powers redrew the continent’s map without its own leaders in the room.
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.