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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Pjotr Sauer Russian affairs correspondent

Putin to offer financial incentives to Trump at Ukraine summit

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump walking side by side
If past encounters between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are any guide, it may be the Russian leader who edges the upper hand in Alaska. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

When Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet in Alaska, the Russian president will set out to woo his US counterpart and dangle financial incentives for siding with Moscow over Ukraine.

The hastily arranged summit, organised at Putin’s request, will be his first invitation to meet a US president on American soil since he visited George W Bush in 2007.

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