"The announcement comes just four days after U.S. President Donald Trump had, with much fanfare, revealed plans for a second meeting with the Kremlin leader within two months. The proposed meeting in the Hungarian capital had been agreed upon during a phone call between the two leaders on Thursday, a day before Trump met at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whom he reportedly pressured to cede the eastern Donbas region to Russia, according to the Financial Times."
"After that summit, Trump called on both sides via social media to agree to an immediate ceasefire and maintain the current front lines. The Rubio-Lavrov call was intended to prepare the summit Trump had said would take place within two weeks or so. The conversation, however, appears to have highlighted differences too large to bridge, although the White House made no mention of any disagreement between the two governments."
"Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call, said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future. Before the cancellation was announced, Trump was continuing to pressure Kyiv to cede Russian-occupied territory in exchange for a ceasefire,"
A proposed near-term summit between President Trump and President Putin in Budapest was canceled after a preparatory call between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The summit had been arranged following a presidential phone call and occurred amid a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during which Trump reportedly pressured Zelenskiy to cede the Donbas region. Trump urged an immediate ceasefire and frozen front lines, but the Rubio–Lavrov conversation exposed significant, apparently unbridgeable differences. The White House said no further in-person meeting was necessary and no immediate Trump–Putin meeting is planned.
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