Putin, Trump and Ukraine
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Russian President Putin speeches during their joint press conference with U.S. Persident Donald Trump after their meeing on war in Ukraine at U.S. Air Base In Alaska on August 15, 2025, in Anchorage,
WSJ chief foreign affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov unloaded a scathing summary of Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin, mocking the president's pivot.
From start to finish, President Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin was rife with pomp and circumstance.
The much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin began with a warm welcome a military flyover but ended with a thud after the two leaders conceded they