US President Donald Trump has cancelled his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing stalled diplomacy and new sanctions on Russian oil exports. Trump said recent talks with Moscow “didn’t feel right” and expressed hope for a future peace deal.

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that he has cancelled his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing a lack of progress in diplomatic efforts.

“We cancelled the meeting with President Putin,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday at the White House. “It just didn’t feel right to me.” “It didn’t feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get. So I cancelled it, but we’ll do it in the future,” Trump added.

He said last week that he will meet with Putin in Hungary’s Budapest for talks,

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