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 during a press conference that he hopes the summit will lead to a second meeting that would include Zelenskyy.

People in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk are evacuating for safer areas as Russian troops are closing in even as the historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska gets underway. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned he thinks Vladimir Putin doesn’t want peace but to control Ukraine.