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 —
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.
It only makes sense that we’ve met here, because our countries though separated by the ocean are close neighbors,” Putin said in Anchorage.
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.