One key party who will not be in attendance Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump said Thursday he hopes the summit will lead to a second meeting that would include Zelenskyy.

President Donald Trump's face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska could determine the fate of European security and the trajectory of the war in Ukraine. Trump and Putin took no questions as they started their meeting.