Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

The U.S. military location, whose selection two White House officials revealed to CNN, houses an Air Force base and an Army fort, which merged in 2010. The summit will occur there and not in Russia, as Trump had said on Monday—twice.

The site, in Alaska’s most populous city, was the only suitable option, organizers said, even though the White House hadn’t been keen on the visuals of welcoming Putin to a U.S. military base, according to CNN.

The White House did not immediately respond to a Daily Beast inquiry about the optics of doing so. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced earlier Tuesday that Anchorage would host the summit, b

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