One key party who will not be in attendance Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump said Thursday he hopes the summit will lead to a second meeting that would include Zelenskyy.

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with their delegations of advisers, began their first round of talks on a possible Ukraine ceasefire shortly after the arrival of the Russian delegation in Alaska.