Alaska shares anger and hope while Trump and Putin flies

“Putin is supposed to be in prison, and he comes to Alaska like that.”

Hanna Korea is among the Sea of Alaska waving the Ukrainian flags on the road leading to Marsa.

“When I entered this car park, and I see many Americans, they support, he made me cry,” she says.

Mrs. Korea, 40, left Ukraine in 2019 for love, and after six years, the future of her country can be determined in her accredited city.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will fall at an Elmendorf-Richardson joint base, 30 minutes by car. Ukraine leader Volodimir Zellinski has not been invited, which Mrs. Korea says he is “very sad”.

Among those protesting against their arrival Christopher Keylir, a 53 -year -old older warrior and Alaska.

He says about the meeting: “It is a total, which makes you want to shower,” he says.

“Putin does not need to be in our state, much less than our country. We have a fool in the White House who will take over this man.”

The history of this region with Moscow gives an additional Friday’s summit. The United States bought Alaska from the Russians in 1867 for $ 7.2 million (1.48 million pounds).

Critics were called “Suri’s foolishness”, on the pretext that the land was returning to a frozen barren land. But later the discoveries of rare Earth minerals, oil and abundant gas are paid to that mark.

Decorative churches are among the most obvious symbols of the Russian Alaska heritage. The Orthodox Church of St. Tikhon in Anchorage was held three days of prayer before the leaders arrived.

Priest Nicholas Cragal, an American who recently moved to Alaska after living in Russia for seven years, says the conflict is “especially painful and close to the hearts of the parish.

“We hope this meeting will lead to something … leads to the culmination of this conflict,” says Mr. Karagale.

This feeling is shared by fishermen in the ankle in the creek bed on the outskirts of the city, which are attracted to the area with the attractiveness of some of the finest salmon in the world.

“I think it is a good idea (the summit), I hope you are Zelinsky outside here too … get this thing,” says Don Chrisley, who lives in Alaska in the Arctic, and visits a hunting trip with his grandson.

He wants to end the war “because of the destruction they are doing for all cities and all buildings, which makes everyone more homeless, take their foods far away, remove them, and live them immediately.”

Donald Trump, he says, is “a great job” in the ceasefire negotiations.

While the US president often speaks warmly about his relationship with Vladimir Putin, the tensions of the superpower are still continuing and felt here.

Moscow military aircraft are routinely discovered as they fly near the Alaska coast. In January, Canadian and American combat aircraft were reduced after several Russian aircraft were monitored in the Arctic, according to the Defense Command in North America.

This generates a feeling of uncomfortable for some Alaska who live closer to Russia than Washington, DC.

“Although the Cold War ended between Russia and the United States, they are constantly doing our airline patrols,” a resident of Anstraj Russell Wilson told me during hunting.

“If the president does not put the hammer, we may be in the upcoming Ukraine.”

However, other Alaska consider a return to the hostile actions of the cold war is a long -standing imagination.

I ask the veteran in the army, Christopher Keeler, whether he was concerned about the Russian invasion. “Not really, everyone in Alaska has a pistol.”