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Reuters<\/p>\nReuters<\/p>\n
Putin and Trump last met in August in Alaska and the US president had said further talks would take place in Budapest<\/p>\n
There are “no plans” for US President Donald Trump to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin “in the immediate future”, a White House official has stated.<\/p>\n
Last Thursday Trump said he and the Russian president would hold talks in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
A preparatory meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was due to be held this week – but the White House said the two had had a “productive” call and that a meeting was no longer “necessary”.<\/p>\n
The White House did not share any more details on why the talks had been put on hold.<\/p>\n
On Monday Trump embraced the idea of freezing the Ukrainian conflict on the current front line.<\/p>\n
“Let it be cut the way it is,” he said on Monday, referring to the contested region of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. <\/p>\n
Russia has repeatedly pushed back against freezing the current line of contact.<\/p>\n
Moscow was only interested in “long-term, sustainable peace”, Lavrov said on Tuesday, implying that freezing the front line would only amount to a temporary ceasefire.<\/p>\n
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