Russia scrambled on Wednesday to salvage the prospect of in-person talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin after they were unceremoniously put on hold.

Trump said on Tuesday that he didn't want "to have a wasted meeting" with Putin, which was set to take place in Hungary in the next few weeks, as it became clear that Russia opposes the idea of an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine.

"I don't want to have a waste of time — so we'll see what happens," Trump said following a call on Monday between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

After the call, Russia's top diplomat told reporters in Moscow that he had told Rubio that "Russia has not changed its position" since Trump and Putin met in Alaska in August , and that wh

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