This is how Trump welcomed Putin in Alaska.

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Arab Gulf - Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: Nearly six years after their last meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan in 2019, US President Donald Trump received his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday evening in Alaska. They appeared side-by-side after an official welcoming ceremony without making any statements. All eyes are on the potential outcomes of the Alaska summit, where a high-level meeting is being held to reach a ceasefire in the Russian war on Ukraine. Trump stated hours earlier on Air Force One that he "would not be happy" if his Russian counterpart did not agree to a ceasefire today. The two presidents disembarked from their respective presidential planes at almost the same time at Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base in Anchorage, Alaska, at approximately 11:09 AM local time. The US President arrived first and applauded Putin before approaching him, shaking hands, and smiling broadly before walking on the red carpet, flanked by US F-22 aircraft and with US B-2 and F-35 stealth aircraft flying overhead in a US military display. One journalist was heard asking, "President Putin, when will you stop killing civilians?" Afterward, Putin rode with Trump in the US presidential car, known as "The Beast," and Putin was seen smiling as they headed to the summit venue. It was a rare sight to see the US and Russian presidential planes on the same runway. The meeting between the two leaders began with the presence of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and from the Russian side, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Presidential Aide for Foreign Affairs Yuri Ushakov. When a journalist at the military base asked Putin when he would stop killing civilians, Putin was seen smiling sarcastically and then pointing to his ear. Moments later, the scene inside the US presidential car was a rare occurrence, seeing the leaders of America and Russia in one car. There was mostly no translator inside the car. Press reports stated that coinciding with the start of the bilateral talks, a group of demonstrators raised two yellow and blue flags (the colors of the Ukrainian flag) with the words "Stand with Ukraine" written on them in front of the military base in Alaska. Earlier in the day, President Trump expressed his interest in resuming economic relations between America and Russia, but he indicated that this could not happen without an end to the war. In his first presidential term, Trump met Putin in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017 during the G20 summit, and the meeting sparked ambiguity and questions after Trump insisted on meeting him alone. They then met again in the same year at the Economic Forum in Vietnam. In 2018, they met in Helsinki, Finland, and Trump then defended Putin against the assessments of US intelligence agencies that indicated Russian interference in the 2018 US presidential elections, before meeting twice more during the G20 summits in Argentina in 2018 and in Japan in 2019.