WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The White House said Tuesday there are “no plans” for President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet anytime soon, canceling a summit that was planned for Budapest, Hungary.
The meeting was supposed to be a follow-up to last week’s Oval Office discussions with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The canceled Trump-Putin summit came hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Trump’s demand for “an immediate ceasefire” prior to the meeting in Hungary was a non-starter.
On Monday, Trump said he has called on Putin to stop launching missile and drone strikes on civilian areas of Ukraine.
“There are attacks on Kyiv and some of the other places, and it’s human lives,” Trump said. “But the big number of human lives and soldiers tha