Trump posts powerful two-word message ahead of historic Putin peace summit – while pro-Ukraine Alaskans line the streets
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GOING ALL IN Trump posts powerful two-word message ahead of historic Putin peace summit – while pro-Ukraine Alaskans line the streets
DONALD Trump has posted a powerful two-word message ahead of today's crucial war talks with Vladimir Putin.
Both powerful leaders are headed to Alaska with the streets of Anchorage already lined with pro-Ukrainian civilians coming out in force against Russia's war.
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Pro-Ukrainian civilians have lined the streets of Alaska protesting against Russia's war
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Vladimir Putin's huge team started their journey across to the US today as they sped through the shabby streets of Magadan
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Ukrainian drones hit a residential building in Kursk in a last message to the Kremlin ahead of the talks
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Putin is on his way to Alaska to hold crucial war talks with Donald Trump
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Trump took to Truth Social shortly before he was due to takeoff from Washington to simply post: "HIGH STAKES!!!"
He has already described the summit as being like a chess game this week as he prepares to go face-to-face with Putin for the first time in six years.
Russia's huge delegation started their journey across to the US earlier today as they sped through the shabby streets of Magadan.
Putin is expected to board a jet to Alaska later and complete the nine-hour trip to the 49th state.
Trump will officially greet Putin before peace talks start at around 8:30pm UK time.
The US President has been adamant the bloodshed in Ukraine must end but a merciless Putin is yet to relent.
He even continued to order barbaric attacks on Ukraine as he launched aerial bombs in Dnipropetrovsk region overnight with his troops edging forwards on the frontline.
Ukrainian forces have been forced to evacuate a town in Donetsk as the intense fighting rages on at the hands of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
Putin is expected to ask to keep hold of all the land he has managed to illegally seize since starting the conflict in February 2022.
The brazen tactics were paired with the Kremlin's "Doomsday Radio" which blurted out strange coded messages as the despot started his travels.
Trump vows Putin 'won't mess around with me' & Vlad 'wants a deal' ahead of historic Alaska summit to end Ukraine war
The station is known to send out strange messages during tense times for Russia with experts saying it is likely linked to the Kremlin's nuclear defence forces.
Today the signals NZHTI 88751 MAREL 5057 6881 and NZHTI 03649 STOKOTON 2751 2830 were broadcasted with no explanation.
The same mysterious codes were sounded only six weeks before the start of Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Kyiv launched their own warning shots at Russia as they sent a final message to the Kremlin ahead of the talks.
They are believed to have downed Putin's £32 million Su-30SM fighter close to Ukrainian-controlled Snake Island in the Black Sea.
Russia was also hit by heavy Ukrainian bombardment on the Olya port in Russia's Astrakhan region.
The port has been used to import military goods for Putin's war machine from Iran via the Caspian Sea across the past three years.
Ukraine also exploded Syzran Oil Refinery with a major drone swarm which triggered deafening explosions and sparked two major blazes.
Russia's defence ministry said it had intercepted 55 Ukrainian drones across multiple regions overnight.
Today's historic peace summit will be held at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.
It will be the first meeting between the pair since 2019.
A notable absentee from the peace talks is Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump is expected to call up Kyiv's brave wartime leader alongside his European allies following the summit to discuss the progress made.
A second meeting is then due to be scheduled which could see Putin and Zelensky meet face-to-face for the first time since the war started.
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