Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Soviet World War II airmen buried at Fort Richardson National Cemetery in Anchorage late Friday, hours after concluding a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. The Russian leader placed a bouquet of red flowers at the graves, made the Orthodox sign of the cross and briefly knelt, according to state media accounts. The cemetery section contains the remains of Soviet pilots and sailors who died while ferrying U.S.-built aircraft to the Eastern Front along the Alaska-Siberia (ALSIB) route. The deliveries formed part of the Lend-Lease program, under which Washington supplied Moscow with almost 8,000 planes between 1942 and 1945. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the visit underscored the "shared sacrifices of our peoples" and thanked the United States for maintaining the graves. Putin held a similar flower-laying ceremony earlier in the day at the Heroes of ALSIB memorial in Magadan, Russia. No American officials attended the Anchorage tribute, and neither side announced new joint initiatives, but the gesture offered a rare moment of historical concord as the two presidents wrapped up talks that focused on the war in Ukraine and wider security issues.