President Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin held a rare meeting Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.

After stepping off Air Force One, Trump applauded as Putin approached along a red carpet laid out for each leader.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss ending the Ukraine war after three and a half years.Following a meeting on Thursday with top government officials on the summit,

Trump has visited Alaska several times as president, pushed for expanded oil, gas and mining permits there, and even got funding for new polar icebreakers, a popular stance in a state he won with 54% of the vote in 2024.

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

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Alaska’s biggest city on Thursday night ahead of the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Russian leader

The American and Russian presidents will meet face to face at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday, according to a White House official.

The meeting feels personal to Ukrainian refugees in the city, with two world leaders expected to discuss the fate of a war they came here to escape.

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.