🔗 Share this article Plans for Trump-Putin Talks Shelved Days After Hungarian Capital Negotiations Suggested Trump and Putin last met in August in the northern US state and the American leader had stated further discussions would take place in the Hungarian capital There are "no plans" for American leader Donald Trump to meet Russian President Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has declared. Recently the US president indicated he and the Russian president would meet in Hungary's capital soon to address the Ukraine conflict. A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his opposite number Foreign Minister Lavrov was due to be held this week - but the White House stated the two had had a "productive" discussion and that a meeting was not "necessary". The White House declined to provide any more details on why the talks had been delayed. Earlier Events The US president had discussed a Budapest summit during a call with Putin, a day before meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House. Various sources claimed his talks with Zelensky had been a "heated exchange", with sources claiming Trump had pushed him to relinquish significant territories of eastern Ukraine as part of a settlement with Moscow. However, on this week the American president embraced a peace initiative supported by Kyiv and EU officials to pause the conflict on the existing battle lines. "Let it be cut the way it is," he stated. Russia has frequently resisted against freezing the current line of contact. Moscow was only interested in "long-term, sustainable peace", Russia's foreign minister commented on Tuesday, implying that halting hostilities would simply constitute a brief pause. Diplomatic Positions The "root causes" of the conflict required resolution, the Russian diplomat stated, using Russian diplomatic language for a range of comprehensive conditions that include the acknowledgment of total Russian authority over the eastern region as well as the military reduction of the country – a unacceptable proposition for Kyiv and its Western allies. The Ukrainian president said conversations concerning the front line were the "start of negotiations" but that Moscow was "taking all measures" to evade negotiations. He additionally stated the sole subject that could make Moscow "become engaged" was that of the delivery of distance-capable munitions to the Ukrainian military. Weapons Discussions The Russian president's unscheduled call with the US leader last Thursday occurred before rumors that the United States was considering delivering distance-capable weapons to Ukraine that could potentially strike inside Russia. Zelensky asserted it was the missile discussion that had forced Russia to enter into dialogue. The conversation concerning the weapons systems had emerged as a "valuable contribution" in international relations", he added.