ANCHORAGE — Over 100 protesters, including many Ukraine supporters, took to the streets of Alaska’s biggest city on Thursday night ahead of the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

The demonstrators gathered on a popular street corner in Anchorage hours before the Trump-Putin summit in the 49th state — their first face-to-face sit-down in years in which they’ll discuss finding peace in Ukraine.

But many of the protesters, who appeared to be mainly Democrats, didn’t have high hopes over the peace talks and expressed dismay that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wouldn’t be present. 4

Barbara Hood, who has lived in Anchorage for 60 years, said she brought a large Ukrainian flag with her to make a statement.

The flag is supposed t

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