A planned in-person meeting scheduled in Budapest between Trump and Putin has reportedly been called off.
According to reports fromm local media outlets, the meeting was intended to address the war inside Ukraine and has now been put on hold, as confirmed by insiders.
The decision arrived after a phone call between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during which Russia reiterated its long-standing demands and refused to commit to a cease-fire fire alongside the existing front lines.
The US administration announced that there were no plans for a Trump and Putin meeting in the near future. Russia insisted that the summit preparation needs to be serious, adding that no date was firmly set to begin with and that it’s negotiating stance remains unchanged since a prior summit inside Alaska.
European allies expressed massive concerns linked to the summitt and how it could proceed without any type of meaningful Russian concessions, and they strongly support a cease-fire based on the current line of contact.
The meeting being shelved is another serious blow to Trump who has long called himself as a peacemaker but is now clearly struggling with his goal of taming both sides and arriving at a ceasefire.