{"id":346274,"date":"2025-08-15T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346274\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:19:10","slug":"ukraine-war-latest-ship-in-russian-port-attacked-on-day-of-trump-putin-summit-as-timings-for-alaska-meetings-revealed-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346274\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war latest: Ship in Russian port attacked on day of Trump-Putin summit – as timings for Alaska meetings revealed | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Momentous occasion brings Putin in from the cold – but is Trump walking into a trap?\n <\/p>\n

\u00a0By Martha Kelner<\/a>, US correspondent, in Alaska<\/b><\/p>\n

Alaska is a vast wilderness which is sparsely populated. But the quiet is being pierced now by a cacophony of questions over this summit.<\/p>\n

Why was Putin invited here? What does he want? What’s he willing to concede? And is Donald Trump about to walk into his trap?<\/p>\n

The summit will take place on a military base on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska’s biggest city.<\/p>\n

It was thrown together at short notice, so there were few venue options available, given the security that is required.<\/p>\n

Even so, many of the visiting journalists and support staff for politicians are staying in Airbnbs because there are not enough hotel rooms available for everyone.<\/p>\n

There is the sense that this is a momentous occasion.<\/p>\n

The last time Putin met a US president was in 2021, when he exchanged starkly differing views with Joe Biden in Geneva.<\/p>\n

But that was before his invasion of Ukraine in 2022. He’s been a pariah ever since, wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, including the abduction of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n

With this invite, Trump is bringing him back in from the cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Momentous occasion brings Putin in from the cold – but is Trump walking into a trap? \u00a0By Martha…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-346274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032278009806661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}