President Donald Trump on Monday previewed his highly-anticipated meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin, saying he's hopeful for "constructive conversations" but that it isn't up to him to make a peace deal.

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering.

President Donald Trump framed his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin as a moment to feel out the Russian leader’s parameters for ending the war in Ukraine and acknowledged it would take further meetings to strike a final peace deal.