Overview

• The Aug. 15 summit at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson brought Presidents Trump and Putin together for high-stakes Ukraine talks that ended without a publicly announced ceasefire.
• Russian President Putin traveled aboard the Il-96-300PU ‘Flying Kremlin,’ a fortified in-flight command post used for long-range presidential transport.
• A B-2 Spirit bomber flanked by four F-35As executed a high-visibility flyover during the tarmac greeting to underscore U.S. strategic deterrence.
• Kremlin-released footage showed U.S. F-35As escorting Putin’s Il-96-300PU on its return flight, with state media initially misidentifying the jets as F-22 Raptors.
• NORAD enforced a temporary flight restriction with E-3 AWACS and quick-reaction fighters to guard Alaska’s airspace and confirmed no violations.