Reporters who attended the Alaska summit have claimed there were no proper beds and no phone signal after an arduous journey to make it to the crunch talks.

Members of the media travelled thousands of miles to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for just 12 minutes of speeches from Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Journalists had initially been told that talks between the US President and Russian leader about brokering an end to the war in Ukraine could last up to seven hours.

But three hours in, the media waiting under a large tent were informed that a press conference had been called and wider bilateral talks were no longer taking place.

Mr Trump and Mr Putin were on stage in Anchorage for 12 minutes, with no questions taken from the hundreds of gathered journalists and no ceasefire announced.