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

Government documents with details about meeting schedules and seating charts − as well as an extravagant menu − were accidentally left in a hotel printer.

With President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to meet in Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine, the optics could be setting the stage for a normalized U.

NEWS ANALYSIS. Several leaders from across Europe are set to travel to Washington on Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet with the American president. The Ukrainian crisis now pits Kyiv and the main European governments against Moscow and Washington.

President Trump told reporters on Friday that he's willing to talk about business with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but said there would be no deals "until we get the war solved" in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump dismissed criticism of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska as "fake news" Sunday night on Truth Social, saying the war in Ukraine could be ended "almost immediately" but critics were making it harder to do so.

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

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.