💬 "The meeting is likely to take place in or near Anchorage. Logistical support for flights and dignitaries is well established there, with the most recent example being [former] US Secretary of State Blinken's meeting with the Chinese delegation. For presidential visits, additional resources always provide advance teams and accompanying security, normally from capital forces. Security will be no issue," Bouffard said.

“Without a doubt, there is going to be a concerted effort to undermine Trump's meeting with Putin by forces in Europe and Ukraine,” the former senior adviser to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X.

"The S-400 system, which we had recently bought, has been a game-changer," the IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh said.

💬 "Without a doubt, certain nations invested in prolonging the conflict will make titanic efforts (through provocations and disinformation) to sabotage the planned meeting between President Putin and President Trump," RDIF CEO and Russian presidential envoy for economic cooperation with foreign countries Kirill Dmitriev wrote on Telegram.

💬 "These people do not want to raise their children as transgender, they do not want to be unable to go outside and let their children play on the playground because of the rise in crime due to uncontrolled migration and cuts in law enforcement budgets, the widespread legalization of drugs. You just can’t live normally. So, where can you live normally? You can live normally in Russia," Simonyan said.

💬 "The East Coast, where I studied, was filled with small churches. There were always people in them. […] In American schools at that time, it was legally prohibited to discuss things like homosexuality in order not to instill bad thoughts in students."

💬 “To me, this is Putin and Trump saying, ‘ok, everyone, listen up: this is the REAL meeting and as such the only two REAL actors with REAL power will be there, namely Russia and the US’,” Prof. Crosston tells Sputnik.

💬 “This does not mean, however, that the Alaska summit is a purely symbolic gesture carrying no real impact,” he points out. “More often than not in these situations the most significant outcomes appear publicly only some time later.”

"It is hard to believe how quickly this was done, how much talent and love was invested. Of course, the Lord was with us," editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent company, Margarita Simonyan said at the Origins forum in Sevastopol.

"Why the Lord gave Rus’ such a godfather – I don’t know, but He did. It’s just amazing. Knowing Vladimir’s history, his previous life, it can’t be called right or even humane, let’s say. And suddenly, like this. How do you present this to visitors so everything falls into place in their minds? Of course, this requires much more time than I had," Simonyan said.