🔗 Share this article Plans for Putin-Trump Summit Postponed Shortly After Budapest Negotiations Suggested Putin and Trump previously convened in August in Alaska and the American leader had said additional talks would take place in Budapest There are "no preparations" for American leader Donald Trump to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the near term", a White House official has announced. Last Thursday the US president said he and the Russian president would meet in Budapest soon to discuss the war in Ukraine. A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Lavrov was planned for recently - but the administration said the two had had a "constructive" call and that a meeting was not "necessary". The White House withheld additional specifics on why the talks had been put on hold. Earlier Events Trump had raised the possibility of a Hungarian meeting via telephone with the Russian leader, a just prior to meeting Ukraine's President Zelensky in the White House. Various sources indicated his talks with Zelensky had been a "heated exchange", with those familiar indicating the president had pushed him to cede extensive regions of eastern Ukraine as part of a settlement with Moscow. Yet, on Monday the American president endorsed a truce plan endorsed by Kyiv and EU officials to halt the war on the current front line. "Leave it as is the way it is," he stated. Moscow has frequently resisted against freezing the existing front lines. Moscow was exclusively seeking "enduring stability", Lavrov commented on Tuesday, indicating that pausing conflict would simply constitute a temporary ceasefire. Political Perspectives The "underlying reasons" of the hostilities required resolution, Lavrov said, using Kremlin shorthand for a series of extensive requirements that involve the acknowledgment of total Russian authority over the eastern region as well as the military reduction of the country – a unacceptable proposition for Kyiv and its European partners. Zelensky stated talks regarding the front line were the "start of negotiations" but that Russia was "doing everything" to avoid diplomacy. He additionally stated the only topic that could cause Russia to "pay attention" was that of the provision of extended-range arms to the Ukrainian military. Military Considerations The Russian president's spontaneous discussion with the US leader last Thursday occurred before reports that the United States was considering delivering extended-range cruise missiles to Ukrainian forces that could potentially strike inside Russia. The Ukrainian leader asserted it was the Tomahawks issue that had forced Russia to enter into dialogue. The conversation concerning the weapons systems had emerged as a "valuable contribution" in negotiations", he remarked.