🔗 Share this article Plans for Trump-Putin Meeting Postponed Shortly Following Hungarian Capital Talks Announced Putin and Trump previously convened in late summer in Alaska and the American leader had indicated additional discussions would take place in the Hungarian capital Currently exist "no plans" for US President President Trump to confer with Russian President Putin "anytime soon", a administration representative has stated. Last Thursday the US president said he and the Kremlin leader would conduct negotiations in Hungary's capital soon to discuss the war in Ukraine. A preparatory meeting between America's top diplomat Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was planned for recently - but the administration clarified the two had had a "positive" call and that a face-to-face session was no longer "needed". The administration withheld further information on why the talks had been put on hold. Previous Developments Trump had discussed a Hungarian meeting during a call with Putin, a just prior to meeting Ukraine's President Zelensky in the White House. Various sources claimed his talks with Zelensky had been a "heated exchange", with those familiar indicating Trump had pressured him to relinquish large areas of eastern Ukraine as part of a agreement with Moscow. Yet, on this week the American president supported a peace initiative supported by Kyiv and EU officials to freeze the war on the present positions. "Freeze the lines where it stands," he stated. Russia has consistently objected against freezing the current line of contact. Moscow was solely focused on "permanent resolution", Lavrov said on this week, implying that freezing the front line would simply constitute a brief pause. Diplomatic Positions The "root causes" of the hostilities needed to be addressed, the Russian diplomat said, using Russian diplomatic language for a series of comprehensive conditions that encompass the acceptance of complete Moscow control over the eastern region as well as the disarmament of the country – a unacceptable proposition for Kyiv and its Western allies. The Ukrainian president stated talks regarding the front line were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Russia was "doing everything" to evade negotiations. He further commented the exclusive issue that could make Moscow "become engaged" was that of the provision of distance-capable munitions to Ukraine. Strategic Factors Putin's unplanned conversation with Trump recently came ahead of rumors that the US was preparing to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukrainian forces that could theoretically target inside Russia. The Ukrainian leader asserted it was the Tomahawks issue that had compelled Moscow to engage in discussion. The discussion regarding the missiles had turned out to be a "significant input" in negotiations", he commented.