White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the summit would amount to a 'listening session' for President Trump on the Russian leader's interest in peace.

UK PM Keir Starmer hugs Ukraine’s Zelenskiy outside 10 Downing Street ahead of the Trump-Putin summit:: London, England::Zelenskiy, who was in Germany on Wednesday (August 13), has been working with European leaders to press Trump not to allow Putin to carve up Ukraine's territory at the Alaska summit.

The US-Russia summit lets Putin get back to the top table of international diplomacy and thumb his nose at critics. Here’s what else he stands to gain.