Trump’s Putin Summit Was Scrapped In Another Reversal
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not meet in Budapest after all.
“Secretary Rubio and Secretary of State Lavrov had a productive meeting. Therefore, an additional face-to-face meeting between the Secretary and the Secretary of State is not necessary, and President Trump has no plans to meet with President Putin in the near future,” he said in an email to HuffPost and other media outlets.
“I don’t want to have a wasted meetingTrump said at the White House: event on tuesday. ““I don’t want to waste any time, so we’ll see what happens.”
The change of plan also comes after the administration refused to answer questions from HuffPost senior White House correspondent SV Dáte about: who chose Budapest as the location of the conversation.. When asked about the decision, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt childishly said, “Your mother did it,” but did not respond to the inquiry.
The cancellation of the meeting marks a sudden turnaround for the White House. harmony and continuation of beginnings this has become synonymous with the administration’s talks with Russia.
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The summit was to take place nearly three months after Trump’s last meeting with Putin, in which he failed to broker a ceasefire. The decision to cancel the meeting underscores ongoing questions about the status of negotiations on ending the war and the intractable nature of Russia’s demands.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed on tuesday It was stated that Russia’s interest in diplomacy decreased after the USA signaled that it would not give long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, and that this would significantly increase the country’s military capabilities.
