We are covering President Trump and Vladimir Putin meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.

The topic is the war in Ukraine.

Three countries engaged on this issue, but only too clearly present today.

That mismatch hangs over this meeting with Ukrainian leaders not invited.

This started around 3.30 p.m. Eastern in the United States time.

And East Coast, the U.S.

representatives include Steve Wickoff, Donald Trump's special envoy, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Those are the top diplomats of the administration. We saw Trump and Putin shaking hands flanked by F-22 Raptors.

You can see it right there, hearty handshake and brace, and here's how the moment unfolded.

President Putin, will you agree to a ceasefire?

Mr. President, what's an investigation of why to do, poop?

Mr. Putin, did you under-assimate you pray?

President Putin, will you stop to make you pray? President, Putin, will you stop filming civilians?

It's called a photo opportunity for a reason, because we expect to hear from these leaders later,

but in that moment, they are just showing the world that they are together and holding the meeting.

We saw Putin and Trump go into the presidential limousine, the beast.

Now, that is a special treatment that you don't always see. Indeed, it's more common

among traditional American allied states, say Britain or even France, but not usually Russia.

They took a shore ride, and the two leaders posed for

a spray picture after the earlier organized photo you saw. Reporters shouted questions. That's their job.

We all want that. We've got our own reporters there in the field, but as is typical before an actual

bilat presentation, neither side there chose to take any questions or be

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