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.

He once again blamed Ukraine for getting invaded and also twice confusingly referred to Alaska as part of Russia.