The Kremlin released the detailed agenda for Vladimir Putin’s Friday meeting with Donald Trump as the US president is expected to push the Russian leader to agree to a ceasefire in Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and

Russia says it invaded Ukraine to halt Kyiv's ambitions to join NATO, the U.S.-led defensive alliance, which it saw as a major security threat. It also accuses Kyiv of persecuting ethnic Russians and their culture in Ukraine.