There are no immediate plans for a Trump-Putin meeting, a White House official said

US President Donald Trump has no plans to meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin “in the immediate future,” a White House official said.

Last Thursday, Trump said he and the Russian president would meet in Budapest in two weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine.

A preparatory meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was due to take place this week – but the White House said the two had a “productive” call and the meeting was no longer “necessary”.

The White House did not share further details about why the talks were halted.

On Monday, Trump embraced the idea of ​​freezing the Ukrainian conflict on the current front line.

“Let it be cut as it is,” he said Monday, referring to the contested region of Donbass in eastern Ukraine.

Russia has repeatedly pushed back from freezing the current line of contact.

Moscow was only interested in “long-term, sustainable peace”, Lavrov said on Tuesday, adding that freezing the front line would only be a temporary ceasefire.

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