London —

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are heading to Alaska for pivotal talks that could unlock a long-sought peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

A peace deal, or a simple thawing of relations between Moscow and Washington, could also pave the way for what, until recently, seemed fanciful to most American companies – doing business with Russia.

“I noticed (Putin’s) bringing a lot of business people from Russia, and that’s good,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on Friday. “I like that, because they want to do business, but they’re not doing business until we get the war solved.”

Anton Siluanov, Russia’s finance minister, and Kirill Dmitriev, a senior economic negotiator and head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, are among those attending the talks

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