(The Hill/NEXSTAR) – President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putins shook hands in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday afternoon, greeting each other warmly in what was their first face-to-face interaction since the first Trump administration.

The two leaders met on the tarmac at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, smiling before the assembled media before getting into "the Beast," sitting side-by-side in the back seat en route to the meeting site.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the previously planned one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin is now a three-on-three meeting that will include Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff. Putin will be joined by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov. The change indicates

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