Stealth Bomber plane flew over both him and Russian President Vladimir Putin as the two greeted each other on the tarmac ahead of a summit in Alaska.Newsweek reached out to a foreign relations analyst via email on Friday for additional comment.

FROM THE moment he stepped off his plane onto the red-carpeted tarmac, the summit in Alaska was a triumph for Vladimir Putin. He was greeted with applause from his host, Donald Trump. The two men may have had nothing to announce after hours of talks—the first meeting between a Russian and American president since the invasion of Ukraine—but the encounter at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage transformed Mr Putin from a pariah of the West into an honoured guest on American soil.