🔗 Share this article Arrangements for Trump-Putin Meeting Delayed Shortly After Hungarian Capital Talks Proposed Trump and Putin previously convened in late summer in the northern US state and the American leader had said further talks would occur in Budapest Currently exist "no plans" for American leader Donald Trump to confer with Russia's Putin "in the near term", a administration representative has declared. Recently Trump said he and the Kremlin leader would hold talks in Budapest soon to discuss the war in Ukraine. A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Lavrov was scheduled to occur recently - but the White House said the two had had a "productive" conversation and that a meeting was not "needed". The administration withheld further information on the reason the negotiations had been postponed. Earlier Events Trump had discussed a Budapest summit via telephone with the Russian leader, a just prior to meeting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. Certain accounts suggested his talks with the Ukrainian leader had been a "contentious discussion", with sources indicating Trump had urged him to relinquish significant territories of eastern Ukraine as part of a agreement with Moscow. However, on Monday the American president embraced a ceasefire proposal supported by Kyiv and EU officials to pause the hostilities on the current front line. "Let it be cut where it stands," he stated. Moscow has repeatedly pushed back against freezing the present battle positions. The Russian government was only interested in "long-term, sustainable peace", Lavrov commented on Tuesday, suggesting that freezing the front line would only amount to a temporary ceasefire. Political Perspectives The "underlying reasons" of the conflict demanded attention, the Russian diplomat said, using Moscow's terminology for a series of maximalist demands that involve the acceptance of total Russian authority over the Donbas as well as the disarmament of Ukraine – a impossible condition for Kyiv and its EU supporters. Zelensky commented talks regarding the battle positions were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Moscow was "taking all measures" to evade negotiations. He also said the only topic that could cause Russia to "take notice" was that of the delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine. Strategic Factors Putin's unscheduled call with Trump last Thursday came ahead of speculation that the US was considering delivering long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukrainian forces that could potentially strike Russian territory. Zelensky asserted it was the missile discussion that had forced Russia to enter into dialogue. The discussion regarding the weapons systems had proven to be a "strong investment" in international relations", he remarked.