Anchorage, Alaska — U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war in Ukraine but also the fate of European security.

President Trump will have the most important foreign policy meeting of his second term so far on Friday, as he comes face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin at U.S. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage,