🔗 Share this article

Currently exist "no plans" for American leader President Trump to confer with Russian President Putin "anytime soon", a administration representative has stated.

This past week the US president stated he and the Kremlin leader would hold talks in Hungary's capital within two weeks to examine the war in Ukraine.

A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was due to be held recently - but the White House clarified the two had had a "positive" discussion and that a meeting was not "needed".

The administration withheld additional specifics on why the talks had been put on hold.

Previous Developments

Trump had discussed a Budapest summit over the phone with Putin, a day before hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.

Certain accounts claimed his talks with Zelensky had been a "contentious discussion", with insiders claiming Trump had pushed him to give up significant territories of Ukraine's east as part of a agreement with Moscow.

Yet, on Monday Trump supported a peace initiative supported by Kyiv and European leaders to halt the war on the existing battle lines.

"Freeze the lines the way it is," he remarked.

Moscow has frequently resisted against pausing the present battle positions.

The Russian government was exclusively seeking "enduring stability", Russia's foreign minister stated on this week, implying that pausing conflict would only amount to a brief pause.

Political Perspectives

The "fundamental issues" of the war needed to be addressed, the Russian diplomat emphasized, using Kremlin shorthand for a set of maximalist demands that involve the acknowledgment of total Russian authority over the Donbas as well as the military reduction of the country – a non-starter for Ukraine and its European partners.

Zelensky stated talks regarding the front line were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Moscow was "employing all tactics" to prevent dialogue.

He also said the exclusive issue that could make Moscow "become engaged" was that of the delivery of distance-capable munitions to Ukraine.

Strategic Factors

The Russian president's unplanned conversation with Trump last Thursday occurred before reports that the US was planning to provide extended-range cruise missiles to Ukrainian forces that could theoretically target Russian territory.

The Ukrainian leader stated it was the Tomahawks issue that had forced Russia to engage in discussion. The conversation concerning the missiles had turned out to be a "significant input" in diplomacy", he remarked.