Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine, more than three years after Moscow launched its invasion, as the two leaders prepared for a pivotal U.

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and

Donald Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin “one-on-one” on Friday to discuss the war in Ukraine. The talks are scheduled to start at 11:30am local time (8.30pm BST) and will be followed by a press conference. The highly-anticipated summit, which Ukraine has been shut out of, will be attended only by the two leaders and their interpreters.