Here are 12 things to know about the historic, and controversial, summit. Anchorage’s military base: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Trump landed at JBER at 10:20 a.m. Friday and Putin arrived shortly before 11 a.m. They’re scheduled to hold a news conference at the end of their summit and then fly out of Anchorage.

In a reversal only few hours after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump said an overall peace agreement, and not a ceasefire, was the best way to end the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aircraft landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for talks with President Trump Friday. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Trump would be meeting the Russian leader on the tarmac.

President Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska today, a momentous summit on American soil with a leader isolated by the West over his invasion of Ukraine. Trump, who pledged a quick end to the war in Ukraine during his 2024 campaign,

All eyes will be the Alaskan city that has provided a world stage for presidents and leaders in recent history

As Putin steps onto this patch of US soil later today, he will surely be hoping to strike a better deal than his country’s imperial leaders, who ruled Alaska as “Russian America” for nearly 70 years before selling it to the US in 1867 for just $7.2m.

The Kremlin shared a video shot inside Putin’s presidential aircraft during the return flight to Russia after the Anchorage meeting. On Aug. 15, 2025,

The high-stakes summit at the Anchorage Air Force base comes as the U.S. seeks a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.