Putin landed in the United States for the first time in years
Putin was greeted with a red carpet and a warm handshake from Trump on arrival at a US airbase in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday as both leaders arrived for talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
It marked Putin’s first time stepping on Western soil since he ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and was notable in its welcoming atmosphere compared with the frosty reception a hostile Trump laid on for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in February.
The last time the pair met was at a G20 summit in Osaka in 2019, during Mr Trump’s first term in office.
But it has been 10 years since Mr Putin last went to the US. Here, we look at what happened during that trip and what can be expected from the upcoming summit in Alaska.
The two leaders, along with a pair of top aides each, met for nearly three hours at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage after a carefully choreographed welcome that included a red carpet and military flyover.
