The presidential Air Force One aircraft landed after a flight from the Andrews base near Washington over a six -hour flight. Trump arrived at the base 40 minutes before the planned beginning of the meeting with Putin. The Russian president, as announced, later landed at 21 Polish time.
About eight minutes after 21 Both politicians left their planes. Then Trump stopped on the red carpet and waited for Putin, then hugged the Russian leader's hand. They both exchanged a few sentences and read for photos.
Then the reporters asked Vladimir Putin a question about when he would stop killing civilians. Putin made a gesture he showed that he would not hear the question.
A moment later, both leaders got into the limousine went to the Elmenorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage to talk about the war in Ukraine.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin talk about the future of Ukraine
The Trump-Putin meeting takes place not “in four eyes”, and in the format “Three out of three”-said the spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt. In addition to Trump, the American side will present state secretary Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pieskow said that if the conversations of President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska will be fruitful, then their consequence may be three -sided conversations with Ukraine. Pieskow said that the Friday conversations of leaders will last at least 6-7 hours.
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