Back in the USSR and a bit of the bizarre feature ahead of Trump-Putin summit

A general view of Arctic Valley ahead of a planned meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine, in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 13, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -A flurry of superpower-style signalling from Washington and Moscow over the war in Ukraine heralded the first U.S.-Russian summit in four years, but on the ground in Alaska there was a mix of the bizarre, the peculiar and even moose and a bear.

Donald Trump wants Friday's summit at a Cold War-era air force base to be the start of the end of the deadliest war in Europe since World War Two.