By Dmitriy Turlyun

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -A flurry of superpower-style signalling from Washington and Moscow over the war in Ukraine heralded the first U.S.-Russian summit in four years, but on the ground in Alaska there was a mix of the bizarre, the peculiar and even moose and a bear.

Donald Trump wants Friday’s summit at a Cold War-era air force base to be the start of the end of the deadliest war in Europe since World War Two.

Vladimir Putin, ascendant in the war, has meanwhile offered the prospect of a possible deal to limit strategic nuclear weapons, which the Kremlin hopes would usher in a much broader discussion of U.S. and Russian global interests beyond Ukraine.

In Anchorage, nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 km), from the front lines of the war, Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei

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