🔗 Share this article Plans for Putin-Trump Meeting Delayed Days After Hungarian Capital Talks Suggested Trump and Putin previously convened in late summer in the northern US state and the American leader had stated further talks would occur in Budapest There are "no plans" for American leader President Trump to confer with Russian President Putin "anytime soon", a White House official has announced. Recently the US president stated he and the Russian president would conduct negotiations in Budapest in the coming fortnight to address the ongoing hostilities. A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was planned for recently - but the White House stated the two had had a "positive" conversation and that a meeting was not "necessary". The administration did not share additional specifics on the reason the negotiations had been postponed. Previous Developments The US president had discussed a Hungarian meeting over the phone with the Russian leader, a day before meeting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House. Certain accounts suggested his meeting with the Ukrainian leader had been a "shouting match", with sources indicating Trump had pressured him to cede extensive regions of eastern Ukraine as part of a deal with Russia. Nevertheless, on this week the American president embraced a ceasefire proposal supported by Kyiv and EU officials to freeze the hostilities on the present positions. "Let it be cut the way it is," he said. Russia has consistently objected against freezing the current line of contact. The Russian government was exclusively seeking "long-term, sustainable peace", Russia's foreign minister stated on this week, implying that pausing conflict would merely represent a short-term truce. Political Perspectives The "root causes" of the conflict demanded attention, the Russian diplomat said, using Kremlin shorthand for a set of comprehensive conditions that involve the acknowledgment of full Russian sovereignty over the Donbas as well as the demilitarisation of the country – a unacceptable proposition for Kyiv and its EU supporters. The Ukrainian president stated conversations concerning the battle positions were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Russia was "taking all measures" to prevent dialogue. He additionally stated the only topic that could cause Russia to "pay attention" was that of the provision of distance-capable munitions to the Ukrainian military. Military Considerations The Russian president's unscheduled call with Trump recently preceded reports that the United States was preparing to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine that could possibly hit inside Russia. Zelensky said it was the Tomahawks issue that had forced Russia to enter into dialogue. The talk about the weapons systems had emerged as a "valuable contribution" in diplomacy", he added.