“Putin is supposed to be in jail, and he just comes to Alaska like that. A road coming into Anchorage has Hanna Correa among a sea of Alaskans waving Ukrainian flags.
The sight of so many Americans supporting him when I walked into that parking lot brought tears to my eyes,” she adds. Six years after Ms. Correa, 40, left Ukraine for love in 2019, her adopted hometown might decide the destiny of her nation.
Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are scheduled to land at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, which is thirty minutes away. Ms. Correa describes the exclusion of Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky as “pretty sad. The gravity of Friday’s conference is heightened by the region’s history with Moscow. In 1867, the US paid $7.2 million (£1.48 million) to the Russians for Alaska.
William Seward, the US secretary of state at the time, was referred to by critics as “Seward’s Folly” for the purchase, claiming that the area was essentially a frozen wasteland. However, that moniker was disproved by subsequent discoveries of rare earth minerals as well as an abundance of gas and oil.
One of the most obvious representations of Alaska’s Russian history is its elaborate cathedrals. Ahead to the visit of leaders, the St. Tikhon Orthodox Church in Anchorage has been celebrating three days of prayer.
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