The United States has deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered supercarrier, to waters off Alaska shortly after a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, signaling a firm message to Russia.

The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for Moscow. Once Russian territory, Alaska was sold by Alexander II in 1867 for $7.

Russia says it is still open to a Trump-Putin summit in Budapest, but only if the meeting is properly prepared and follows the understandings reached at the Alaska talks. The U.S. cancelled the planned summit after Moscow repeated demands that Ukraine surrender territory,

Amid rising tensions after the cancellation of the Hungary summit, a senior Kremlin aide said on Sunday that the outcomes of the Alaska summit between Putin andTrump have been shared with Kiev, and that Moscow continues to maintain dialogue with Washington on resolving the Ukraine crisis.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was ambivalent when asked about a possible tunnel from Russia to Alaska, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn’t like the proposal. “That’s an interesting one,” Trump told reporters at the White ...

Vladimir Putin says the White House’s original proposal ‘can be used as the basis for a final peaceful settlement’ in Ukraine