{"id":516945,"date":"2025-10-21T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516945\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:15:12","slug":"chances-dwindle-of-quick-trump-putin-meeting-in-budapest-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516945\/","title":{"rendered":"Chances dwindle of quick Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to postpone something, about which there was no agreement,\u201d Russia\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov\u00a0said Monday, according to state-owned RIA Novosti news agency, shortly after CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/20\/politics\/trump-putin-meeting-possible-delay-russia-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported the meeting had been postponed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIA later posted an update, saying Ryabkov had added that the meeting of top diplomats requires further preparation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreparation is needed, serious preparation. You have heard statements from both the American side and ours that this may take time. Therefore, there were actually no precise terms set at the beginning,\u201d added Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov during a briefing to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ryabkov\u2019s remarks pour\u00a0cold water\u00a0on the\u00a0idea that\u00a0Putin and\u00a0Trump, who is hoping to use the momentum and credibility from his Middle East peace deal\u00a0to broker an end to the Kremlin\u2019s war in Ukraine,\u00a0could meet anytime soon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposed summit in Budapest, which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor\u00a0Orb\u00e1n\u00a0touted as \u201cgreat news for the peace-loving people of the world,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/budapest-try-the-hague-instead-putin-visit-divides-eu-ukraine-war-lithuania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earned the ire<\/a>\u00a0of other European capitals, with some vowing to close their airspace to Putin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEurope has no place for war criminals. There is no route through Europe for war criminals to attend any events,\u201d Lithuanian Foreign Minister\u00a0K\u0119stutis Budrys\u00a0told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Putin also currently faces a warrant for his arrest from the International Criminal Court for war crimes, but Budapest has vowed not to enforce it and withdrew from the ICC earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to postpone something, about which there was no agreement,\u201d Russia\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov\u00a0said Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18992,5293,32,2820,12,332,10243,1771,49,333,771,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-516945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-airspace","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-marco-rubio","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-sergey-lavrov","15":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-war","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine","20":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115412109540437063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}