The sprawling Alaskan military base where Trump and Putin will meet

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will meet on Friday to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.

The prominent meeting place is the joint base Elmendor:

White House officials said that the security requirements are clear to host two leaders of the world. During the peak of summer tourism, there were a few other options for a while in a hurry.

Three rounds of talks between Russia and Ukraine this summer, which were held at the request of Trump, have not yet approached both sides of peace.

Here is what we know about the base, and what we can expect from the meeting.

As the roots return to the Cold War, the joint ELMENDORF-Richardson base is the largest military base in Alaska. Installing 64,000 acres is a major location for military preparation in the Arctic.

Mountains covered with snow, ice lakes and picturesque iceotilities framing the base, which tremble regularly through low temperatures of up to -12 ° C (15F) in the winter. However, leaders can expect relatively enjoyable temperatures of about 16 ° C (61f) on Friday.

When Trump visited the base during his first term, in 2019, he said that the forces there “serve the last borders in our country as the first American defense line.”

More than 30,000 people live on the site, which represents about 10 % of the marina’s population.

Al -Qaeda was built in 1940, and the critical air defense site and the central leadership point to ward off threats from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

At its peak in 1957, it hosted 200 combat aircraft, multiple air control and early warning radar systems, which won the title of “Alawite Cover for North America”.

The base continues to grow today because of its strategic location and training facilities.

The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, when it resonated a historic meeting. It became an American country in 1959.

Russian presidential assistant Yuri Ushakov indicated that the two countries are neighbors, with the Pering Strait.

“It seems completely logical for our delegation to fly simply over the Beer Strait, and for this important and expected summit for the leaders of the two countries in Alaska,” Ushakov said.

The last time that Alaska has taken the middle stage at an American diplomatic event in March 2021, when Joe Biden’s diplomatic and national team met with their Chinese counterparts in Ancorag.

Sitting turned into sharp, as the Chinese accused the American of “waiver and hypocrisy.”

Trump was pushing strongly – without great success – to end the war in Ukraine.

As a presidential candidate, he pledged that he could end the war within 24 hours of taking office. He has repeatedly argued that the war “would never happen” if he was president at the time of Russia’s invasion in 2022.

Last month, Trump BBC told this It was “disappointed” by Putin.

The frustrations and Trump agreed on a deadline on August 8 to Putin to agree to the immediate ceasefire or face more severe US sanctions.

With the final date, Trump instead announced that he would meet Putin personally on August 15.

This meeting comes after the special envoy Steve Witkevs “highly productive” talks with Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, according to Trump.

Before the meeting, the White House sought to photograph speculation that the dualism could result in a ceasefire.

“This is a listening exercise for the president,” said White House press secretary Caroline Levitte.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said he considered the summit a “meeting meeting” aimed at urging Putin to end the war.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelinski is not expected to attend. “I would like to say he could go, but he went to a lot of meetings,” Trump said on Monday.

However, Trump said that Zelinski would be the first person to contact him after that.

A White House official said later that Trump and Zelinski would almost meet on Wednesday, before the US President’s summit with Putin. The Zelensky meeting will be joined by many European leaders.

Putin had requested the exclusion of Zelinski, although the White House previously said that Trump was ready for a triple contract where all the three leaders were present.

Zelensky said that any agreements without inputs from Ukraine will be “dead decisions”.

While both Russia and Ukraine have long said that they want the war to end, both countries want things that the other two are harshly opposed.

Trump said on Monday that he “will try to get some of that [Russian-occupied] Again to Ukraine.

However, Ukraine was designed that it would not accept Russian control over the areas that Moscow seized, including the Crimea.

Zelinski regained this week against any idea of “switching” lands.

“We will not reward Russia for what it committed,” said Ukrainian president.

Meanwhile, Putin did not stimulate his regional demands, the neutrality of Ukraine and the future size of its army.

Russia has launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine, in part, Putin’s belief that the Western Defense Alliance, NATO, was using the neighboring country to gain a foothold to make its forces closer to the borders of Russia.

The Trump administration is trying to influence European leaders in the ceasefire deal that would surrender spaces of Ukrainian lands to Russia, according to CBC News partner PBC.

The agreement would allow Russia to control the Crimea, and take the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, which consists of Donetsk and Luhansk, according to sources familiar with the talks.

Russia occupied the Crimea in 2014 and its forces controlled the majority of the Donbas region.

According to the deal, Russia will have to abandon the Ukrainian regions of Jiusson and Zaborisvia, where it is currently enjoying some military control.