Trump & Putin shake hands in Alaska

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shared a handshake and some quick remarks as they posed together for the cameras and rode to the base where they will hold talks on Ukraine.

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Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump.

The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet pilots trained together in Alaska.

Many who died in Alaska during training or transit were reburied at Fort Richardson in 1946.

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to lay flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots in Alaska following his high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump — a symbolic gesture tied to a little-known chapter of World War

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