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Intention meeting between us chairman donald trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin It was halted on Wednesday after Moscow refused to step back from its red lines to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump said on Tuesday that he Did not want to have a “pointless meeting” with Putin After officials came to the conclusion that there were two major differences between the two sides, talks began.
A senior White House official said reuters that there are “President Trump has no plans to meet with President Putin This comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held “productive talks” but opted for an in-person meeting.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Moscow’s key ally in the EU, insisted that preparations for the meeting in Budapest were continuing on Wednesday. The date and time of this summit is still unconfirmed According to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
What has Trump said about ending the war in Ukraine?
Trump announced last week that he would meet Putin in Hungary discuss bringing end of war in ukraineIn a post on Truth Social, he suggested that his success in bringing about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could be a catalyst for ending the war in Europe.
The US President recently told reporters that he planned to Discuss the supply of Tomahawks to Kiev with Putin As a way to pressure him to end the war in Ukraine.
But Trump has walked back his proposal to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles after Russian officials described the move as “unacceptable.”
After the meeting was canceled, Trump said that preparatory talks between senior US and Russian officials had shown that the gap between the two countries was too great to begin negotiations on ending the conflict.
“I don’t want to have a meaningless meeting,” Trump said. “I don’t want to waste time — so we’ll see what happens.”
What is Trump’s position on ending the war?
Trump has given mixed messages on which side he supports. At times he has been seen to be on Putin’s side – but he has also given his support to Kiev.
Trump had said this earlier this month Putin must resolve Ukraine warWhich he claimed made Russia “look bad”. He also mentioned “long lines waiting for gasoline” and predicted that the Russian “economy is about to collapse”. He claimed that Ukraine was close to winning the war.
But a few days later, after a phone call with Putin, he changed his mind, telling a Fox News anchor that he expected Ukraine to make territorial concessions in any peace deal because Putin “has won some wealth.”,
Trump drew criticism when he invited Putin to a summit in Anchorage, Alaska, in August, which was seen as an effort to give Putin a platform again on the world stage. No progress was made on a peace agreement during the talks.
What is Putin’s position on ending the war?
Despite rejecting Trump’s calls for a ceasefire, Russia said it remained committed to the peace deal in a private communication with the US, described as “non-paper”, according to US officials.
In this document Russia demanded complete control over the eastern Donbass region. Moscow already controls all of Luhansk province and about 75 percent of neighboring Donetsk, both of which make up Donbass.
Putin has previously been unwilling to consider giving up any territory he had previously held, and Moscow has often demanded that Ukraine agree to give up more territory before any ceasefire.
The Kremlin also responded to Trump’s statement on Wednesday, saying, “No one wants to waste time, neither President Trump nor President Putin.”
Regarding the summit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the dates “have not been decided yet, but before that, careful preparation is necessary – it takes time”.
Russia has also accused Kiev and its European allies of repeatedly thwarting peace talks.
What is Zelensky’s position on ending the war?
Zelensky said during his overnight address on Tuesday that he and Trump agreed that the starting point for negotiations should be to defuse existing battle lines.
The Ukrainian president accused Russia of “once again making every effort to abandon diplomacy.” “As soon as the issue of long-range mobility became a little more distant for us – for Ukraine – Russia almost automatically became less interested in diplomacy” – he said, referring to the US provision of Tomahawks.
“The greater the Ukrainian long-range capability, the greater Russia’s desire to end the war. The past few weeks have once again confirmed this.”
He described how Tomahawks have become “a strong investment in diplomacy” and that Ukraine would discuss further long-range weapons with its European and US allies.