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Currently exist "no plans" for US President President Trump to confer with Russia's Vladimir Putin "anytime soon", a administration representative has stated.

Recently the US president indicated he and the Kremlin leader would meet in Hungary's capital in the coming fortnight to discuss the war in Ukraine.

A preparatory meeting between America's top diplomat Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was scheduled to occur this week - but the White House stated the two had had a "productive" call and that a face-to-face session was no longer "necessary".

The administration withheld any more details on the reason the negotiations had been put on hold.

Previous Developments

The US president had raised the possibility of a Budapest summit via telephone with Putin, a just prior to hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Certain accounts suggested his talks with Zelensky had been a "contentious discussion", with those familiar indicating Trump had pushed him to cede extensive regions of eastern Ukraine as part of a deal with Moscow.

Yet, on this week the American president embraced a peace initiative backed by Kyiv and EU officials to freeze the war on the existing battle lines.

"Let it be cut in its current state," he stated.

Russia has repeatedly pushed back against pausing the present battle positions.

Moscow was exclusively seeking "enduring stability", Lavrov commented on this week, suggesting that freezing the front line would simply constitute a brief pause.

Diplomatic Positions

The "root causes" of the conflict demanded attention, the Russian diplomat stated, using Russian diplomatic language for a series of comprehensive conditions that include the acceptance of full Russian sovereignty over the eastern region as well as the demilitarisation of the country – a impossible condition for Ukraine and its Western allies.

The Ukrainian president said discussions about the front line were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Moscow was "doing everything" to evade negotiations.

He further commented the exclusive issue that could make Moscow "take notice" was that of the supply of extended-range arms to the Ukrainian military.

Military Considerations

The Russian president's spontaneous discussion with Trump recently came ahead of speculation that the US was preparing to send distance-capable weapons to Ukrainian forces that could potentially strike inside Russia.

Zelensky stated it was the missile discussion that had compelled Moscow to participate in talks. The talk about the missiles had turned out to be a "significant input" in international relations", he added.