{"id":539611,"date":"2025-10-31T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539611\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:21:12","slug":"u-s-scrapped-trump-putin-budapest-summit-after-moscows-hardline-demands-on-ukraine-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539611\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Scrapped Trump-Putin Budapest Summit After Moscow\u2019s Hardline Demands on Ukraine \u2013 FT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has canceled a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest after Moscow reiterated sweeping demands on Ukraine, the Financial Times<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d6655fb1-31af-4da8-85f7-085a8fc00969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> reported<\/a> Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Putin had agreed earlier in October to meet in the Hungarian capital to discuss ways to end Russia\u2019s three-and-a-half-year invasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry reportedly sent a memo to Washington days later repeating its conditions that Ukraine cede territory, reduce its armed forces and vow never to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p>The summit was then canceled after a call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. State Secretary Marco Rubio, who reportedly told Trump that Moscow was \u201cshowing no willingness to negotiate.\u201d In a YouTube interview Sunday, Lavrov<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/10\/27\/trumps-ukraine-peace-stance-radically-shifted-since-alaska-summit-lavrov-says-a90936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> accused<\/a> Trump of \u201cradically\u201d changing his position on peace in Ukraine following the August summit with Putin in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Trump] was not impressed with their position,\u201d FT quoted one person familiar with the discussions as saying.<\/p>\n<p>They added that Trump was still willing to meet his Russian counterparts \u201cwhen and where he thinks there can be progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Trump was reportedly \u201cannoyed\u201d by Putin boasting about Russia\u2019s battlefield gains near the eastern Ukrainian city of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/10\/28\/gerasimov-says-russia-encircled-pokrovsk-and-kupiansk-experts-and-pro-war-bloggers-doubt-it-a90955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Kupiansk<\/a> and the Oskil river during their Oct. 16 call, FT reported.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has demanded control of the remaining Donetsk region territories as a precondition for peace talks, a demand Kyiv has rejected.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry and the U.S. State Department did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States has canceled a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,2046,1757,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-539611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-putin","11":"tag-trump","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115468283657674526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539611","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=539611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}