All eyes will be the Alaskan city that has provided a world stage for presidents and leaders in recent history

It was a welcome tailored for a close friend, not a war criminal, and it looked to the Ukrainians like their nightmare.

With President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to meet in Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine, the optics could be setting the stage for a normalized U.

NEWS ANALYSIS. Several leaders from across Europe are set to travel to Washington on Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet with the American president. The Ukrainian crisis now pits Kyiv and the main European governments against Moscow and Washington.

President Donald Trump dismissed criticism of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska as "fake news" Sunday night on Truth Social, saying the war in Ukraine could be ended "almost immediately" but critics were making it harder to do so.

Melania Trump wrote a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for President Donald Trump to hand-deliver during the Alaska summit. The two world leaders sat down together in Anchorage on Aug.

EADaily, August 16th, 2025. The Russian-American summit in Anchorage demonstrated that Russia's demands to end the armed confrontation on the Ukraine remained unchanged.