Donald Trump has no plans to meet with Vladimir Putin in the near future, a White House official said. The US president spoke by phone with his Russian counterpart on Thursday and said they would meet in person in Budapest, and preparations have already begun. However, talks to prepare for the summit have already failed, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have different views on the terms of a possible end to the war. The White House has not yet provided further details on why the talks were suspended.

A White House official said that US President Donald Trump has"no plans" to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the near future," the BBC reported. The White House later confirmed the news to the Russian news agency TASS.

Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will meet with the Russian president in Budapest within two weeks to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

A preparatory meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was scheduled to take place this week, but the White House said the two politicians had a"productive" phone conversation and the meeting was "no longer necessary."

The White House did not provide further details about why the talks were suspended.

On Monday, Trump supported the idea of freezing the Ukrainian conflict on the current front lines. "Let's leave it as it is," he said on Monday, referring to the disputed Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.

Moscow is only interested in “long-term, sustainable peace,” Lavrov said on Tuesday, suggesting the pause would only be temporary.

The foreign ministers did not reach an agreement, the Russians may have wanted too much

On Tuesday morning, we reported that a phone call between the US and Russian foreign ministers on Monday evening, which was intended to prepare for the US-Russian summit planned for Budapest, failed to yield any results. According to CNN, the talks have been suspended for a while.

An unnamed White House official told the newspaper that, contrary to plans, the two foreign ministers will not meet for the time being, which would have been a pre-summit meeting for the Budapest summit. The main reason for the failure is that American Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have different views on the conditions for a possible end to the war.

Two senior European diplomats told Reuters: “the Russians wanted too much” and it became clear to the Americans that Trump could not reach an agreement in Budapest, one of them said. The Russians have not changed their position at all and are not willing to stop where they are, the second diplomat said.

Moscow reacted to the news of the cancellation of the Budapest summit

Lavrov described as unfair the report by the American news channel CNN, according to which the Russian-American foreign minister meeting, which was intended to prepare for the summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Budapest, had been postponed, MTI quotes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying.

Today I was surprised to read that CNN said that the Putin-Trump meeting could be postponed after our conversation with Marco Rubio yesterday. The dishonesty of many Western media figures is well known, CNN is also notable for this, they are usually not inclined to serious analytical work, but to simple slogans that are thrown and hammered into the heads of the recipients of the information

Lavrov said.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Marco Rubio discussed how to prepare for the Budapest meeting agreed in principle between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Lavrov stressed that the most important thing is not the location and time, but how they will progress in implementing the tasks that were broadly agreed upon in Anchorage. The two sides agreed to continue to maintain telephone contact.

It is too early to talk about the schedule of the meeting between Russian and American Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday after CNN, citing an American official, wrote that negotiations ahead of the Trump-Putin summit in Budapest have stalled.

"In fact, the topics of the phone conversations between President Putin and President Trump last week included the issue of next steps. One aspect of this was, of course, the contact between Foreign Minister Lavrov and Foreign Minister Rubio. Yesterday, the dialogue took place accordingly," Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow about the phone conversation.

We are now working to process what the two foreign ministers discussed, but neither before the phone call nor during the past day did a specific meeting come up. The idea exists, but it is too early to talk about the schedule. And I repeat, any such significant meeting must be properly prepared, thoroughly go through the homework phase. This is exactly what we are dealing with now

– stated the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister according to the Russian Interfax.

Donald Trump: I never said Ukraine would win the war

Donald Trump hosted the Australian Prime Minister at the White House on Monday, and a reporter asked the US president if he thought Ukraine could win the war.

I don't think they'll win, but they could win regardless. I never said they'll win

– said Trump, adding: “Anything can happen, war is a very strange thing, a lot of bad things can happen.”

In response to another question, he said that he believes peace between the two countries is close, but the situation is complicated by the fact that the leaders of Ukraine and Russia"sincerely hate each other."

A few weeks ago, at a UN meeting in New York, Trump said that Ukraine could take back all of its territory, a position he had never previously held. Volodymyr Zelensky said that Trump's statement marked a"big turn."

Volodymyr Zelensky also wanted to participate in the trial

On October 17, US President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. At the beginning of the meeting, Donald Trump emphasized that Volodymyr Zelensky has"endured a lot" recently and believes that they are making good progress towards peace.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged US President Donald Trump to be tougher on Vladimir Putin and signaled his readiness to join the upcoming Budapest summit. Although he did not receive the weapons he had hoped for at the end of his visit, he remained optimistic.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, the Ukrainian leader said that Trump should put even more pressure on Putin than he did on Hamas to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza.

Axios reported before the Zelensky-Trump meeting that Volodymyr Zelensky was caught off guard by the news of the Budapest meeting, especially in the capital of a country he considers least friendly to Ukraine.

Putin's access to Hungary was also questionable

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an international arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin in March 2023, so in theory Hungary should arrest him, since Hungary is a member of the organization until June 2, 2026 - the European Commission spokesperson also spoke about this on Friday - but the Russian president has nothing to fear from this.

On the one hand, Hungary did not arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though there is an arrest warrant for him, and on the other hand, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that, as a good host, Hungary will ensure that the Russian president can arrive in Hungary safely, hold talks here, and then go home.

However, Russian aircraft are banned from the airspace of European Union states.

After Russia escalated the eight-year-old conflict into a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, one of the first sanctions imposed by Western countries was to ban Russian aircraft from their airspace. So it is not ruled out that Putin will have to take a long detour to Hungary.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated on Tuesday that Poland could not guarantee that a court would not order the interception of the plane carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin if it were to pass through Polish airspace on its way to the planned summit in Budapest.

He stressed that the country is bound by the decisions of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, while sharply criticizing Hungary for inviting the Russian president as an EU member state, which he said shows that the country is “positioning itself not as part of the West, but between the West and Russia.”

Sergei Lavrov, responding to the Polish Foreign Minister’s statement, said: “The Poles themselves are now ready to commit terrorist acts.” “I heard that Mr. Sikorski threatened that the safety of President Putin’s plane in Polish airspace would not be ensured if it was heading to Budapest for the proposed, probable summit with Trump,” he said.