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Barely a week ago, US President Donald Trump announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Budapest “within two weeks or so." The declaration came after a two-hour phone call between the two leaders, which Trump described as productive and full of “great progress." The summit was billed as a fresh attempt to restart stalled negotiations over the Russia–Ukraine war, now in its fourth year.

However, by Tuesday, the White House confirmed that the meeting would no longer take place . Plans for a preparatory in-person dialogue between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were also scrapped. “I don’t want to have a wasted meeting," Trump told reporters at the White House. “I don’t want to have a waste

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