(FOX40.COM) -- As the high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin takes place in Anchorage, Alaska, Ukrainians living in Sacramento are bracing for the impact it will have on their friends and family.

More than 20,000 Ukrainian refugees have resettled in the Sacramento area since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. Sacramento County is also home to one of the largest populations of Ukrainian immigrants in the United States.

“I have friends there, my classmates are fighting, my classmates are losing limbs in this war, my pastor at my church was killed,” said Olga Noshyn of the Sunflower Society, a Sacramento-based non-profit for Ukrainian humanitarian aid.

Fifteen-year-old Alex Ashikhmin is a living example of the price of

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