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the White House the president is going back donald trumpPlan for talks to end three-year-old war against Russia ukraine A few days later he claimed that he would meet her Vladimir Putin Next month in Budapest.
A White House official said Independent There are “no plans” for a sit-down between Trump and Putin “in the immediate future” due to the Secretary of State. marco rubio Had a “productive call” with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, saying an in-person meeting between the two top diplomats was “not necessary”.
Trump later told reporters at a Diwali celebration late Tuesday that he did not want to have a “pointless meeting” or a “waste of time,” but did not rule out a meeting in the future.
“We’ll see what happens,” he said, later adding that there could be an update on a possible meeting in the “next two days.”
News of the canceled meeting plan comes just days after what Trump described as a similarly “productive” call with Putin on the eve of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit last Friday.
At the time, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “big progress has been made” in his effort to end the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict and claimed he would meet Putin in the Hungarian capital to discuss a peace deal following a preparatory meeting between Rubio and Lavrov.
The selection of Budapest as the venue had raised questions because it was the same location where the 1994 summit took place, in which Russia pledged not to invade Ukraine in exchange for giving up the nuclear weapons it inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The location was also potentially problematic because Putin is wanted at the International Criminal Court, although the Hungarian government was unlikely to cooperate with the warrant because he is in the process of leaving the court.
Earlier in the day, Russia admitted it had “no idea” when the much-awaited summit between Trump and Putin will be,
The two leaders last met in August at a hastily arranged summit in Anchorage, Alaska. The meeting ended without any significant diplomatic breakthrough, and Trump has taken a more aggressive stance toward Russia in his comments about the ongoing war in recent weeks.
But talks with Putin last week — and then a meeting with Zelensky the next day — appeared to show Trump retreating toward the pro-Russian stance he has adopted since returning to office last January.
Zelensky arrived in Washington with hopes that Trump would authorize the transfer of Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles that would allow Kiev to strike deeper into Russian territory.
The Ukrainian leader had argued that such attacks would help force Putin to take Trump’s call for direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to end the war more seriously.
Trump told reporters traveling with him to Israel on Sunday that he planned to discuss Tomahawks with Putin to pressure him to end the war.
However, Trump did not authorize the transfer of the cruise missiles and Zelensky, leaving Washington empty-handed and instead pressuring Putin and Zelensky to implement a ceasefire that would lock in the current lines of control after more than three years of war.
Trump’s position has attracted support from European leaders, including the heads of government of the UK, France, Germany, Ukraine and the EU, all of whom issued a joint statement of support for the president’s plan.
“We strongly support President Trump’s position that the fighting must stop immediately, and the current line of contact must be the starting point of negotiations,” the statement said.
At the same time, European leaders called for “increasing pressure on Russia’s economy and defense industry until Putin is ready to make peace” and using “the full value of Russia’s real estate” to finance more arms for Ukraine.