All eyes will be on Alaska this week when President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin meet in the largest U.S. state to see if a deal can be struck to produce peace in Ukraine.

The location in Alaska where the summit will be held has not been announced by officials in either country yet. However, in Alaska’s largest city, people are hopeful a resolution can come about and the Alaska setting makes sense.

Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Canfield is a private in the U.S. Army, stationed in Alaska. He said he hopes they are able to come to a resolution “because obviously if affects me and it affects everybody in the United States, but we’ll see what comes soon.”

Despite earlier suggestions Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy might be invited, but the Kremlin pushed back. “If we're going to be involved in a conflict that is on the other side of the world, I feel like their leader should be included in this conversation," Canfield said.

Katherine Francis is a Yup’ik Eskimo from the village of Tununuk, located on Nelson Island in the Bering Sea, told the Associated Press: "It'd be neat for both of these leaders to be communicating together to somehow work out this not having a war." She moved to Anchorage in 1989.