One key party not be in attendance Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump said after his meeting with the Russian president that he would call Zelenskyy and update him on the talks.

In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump.

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

The White House posted an image of the president pointing at Russian President Vladimir Putin alongside the caption, “The goal is peace.”

Florida Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez, a Republican who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee, said Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to be playing the “stall game” during an Alaska summit with President Trump.

The Russian president has been accused of unlawfully deporting children and transferring them from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia

Putin will be joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Yury Ushakov, a diplomatic adviser. Trump's planned working lunch with Putin will also include Rubio, Witkoff, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.