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Trump-Putin summit live: Leaders to meet in Alaska for talks on Ukraine war

Trump-Putin summit live: Leaders to meet in Alaska for talks on Ukraine war

Al Jazeera18 hours ago
The summit between United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is scheduled to begin at 11:30am local time (19:30 GMT) and will be held at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.
The two leaders will meet to discuss an end to the more than three-year war in Ukraine, in what will be their first standalone summit since a 2018 meeting in Helsinki.
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