It's beginning to feel like "Midnight Sun" diplomacy.

In parts of Alaska, the sun doesn't set in summer, casting light through the night but leaving you disorientated.

Ukraine latest: Zelenskyy reject's Putin's proposal

The Trump-Putin summit is pitched as "transparent" but it's difficult to find any path to peace right now.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has reduced it to a "listening exercise" where Donald Trump will seek a "better understanding" of the situation.

There isn't much to understand - Russia wants territory, Ukraine isn't ceding it - but Ms Levitt rejects talk of them "tempering expectations".

It's possible to be both hopeful and measured, she says, because Mr Trump wants peace but is only meeting one side on Friday.

It's the fact that he's only meeti

See Full Page