Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, but 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in Alaska will be watching with trepidation.
A small group of protesters with Stand Up Alaska tested their signs in advance of protests scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Anchorage.
Warm relations between Alaskans and Russians began to shift with the rise of Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. In Alaska, feelings on the two leaders’ meeting seemed mixed.
A Russian Orthodox Church on the shore of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, one of many Russian influences that can be found throughout the state.