🔗 Share this article Arrangements for Putin-Trump Summit Postponed Shortly Following Hungarian Capital Talks Suggested Putin and Trump last met in late summer in Alaska and the American leader had said additional discussions would occur in the Hungarian capital Currently exist "no arrangements" for American leader President Trump to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has announced. Recently the US president indicated he and the Kremlin leader would conduct negotiations in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the Ukraine conflict. A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Lavrov was scheduled to occur recently - but the administration stated the two had had a "positive" call and that a face-to-face session was no longer "necessary". The administration declined to provide any more details on why the talks had been put on hold. Earlier Events The US president had raised the possibility of a Budapest summit via telephone with Putin, a day before meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. Some reports indicated his meeting with the Ukrainian leader had been a "shouting match", with those familiar suggesting the president had pressured him to cede significant territories of eastern Ukraine as part of a agreement with Russia. Yet, on this week the American president embraced a ceasefire proposal backed by Kyiv and EU officials to halt the hostilities on the present positions. "Freeze the lines the way it is," he stated. Russia has frequently resisted against halting the current line of contact. Moscow was exclusively seeking "permanent resolution", Lavrov commented on Tuesday, indicating that pausing conflict would simply constitute a short-term truce. Diplomatic Positions The "underlying reasons" of the hostilities needed to be addressed, Lavrov said, using Russian diplomatic language for a range of comprehensive conditions that encompass the acceptance of full Russian sovereignty over the Donbas as well as the demilitarisation of Ukraine – a unacceptable proposition for Kyiv and its EU supporters. The Ukrainian president commented conversations concerning the battle positions were the "commencement of dialogue" but that Russia was "doing everything" to evade negotiations. He additionally stated the sole subject that could cause Russia to "take notice" was that of the delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine. Weapons Discussions Putin's unplanned conversation with the US leader recently occurred before reports that the United States was preparing to send distance-capable weapons to Ukraine that could possibly hit Russian territory. The Ukrainian leader stated it was the weapons consideration that had compelled Moscow to enter into dialogue. The conversation concerning the weapons systems had proven to be a "strong investment" in international relations", he remarked.