The decision to hold the summit in Budapest was mutual between Russian and American Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the Russian leader's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing."There is no news yet about a Russia-US summit in Budapest, and rumors and speculation about the meeting are false," said the Russian president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov at a briefing in response to a question from TASS. When asked by journalists whether there was anything complicating the process of preparing for the summit, he replied that"there is nothing new to say." He did not answer unequivocally whether Russia had sent a "closed note" to the US with the conditions for resolving the conflict in Ukraine.

"I say again that there is no news. It is clear that all this is surrounded by a lot of gossip, rumors, etc. Most of them do not correspond to reality. There is no news for now," Peskov repeated.