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

Vladimir Putin has formally issued the demands to be met if Russia is to end its invasion of Ukraine, one week after meeting US president Donald Trump in Alaska. Following that summit, during which Putin

As the leaders of the United States and Russia met on Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Friday, supporters of Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion staged multiple demonstrations in Alaska to protest the meeting and what they predicted would be capitulation to Russian goals.

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.

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