The US canceled the summit scheduled to take place in Budapest, Hungary between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia resolutely made tough demands regarding Ukraine, many sources familiar with the matter told the Financial Times.
Plans to host a Russia-US summit in Budapest this month have been postponed after Russia has remained determined to maintain its demands, including Ukraine's ceding of more territory as a condition for a ceasefire.
President Donald Trump supports Ukraine's call for an immediate ceasefire along the current lines on the ground.
A few days after President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin agreed to meet in the Hungarian capital to discuss a way to end the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry sent a memorandum of understanding to Washington, emphasizing similar demands to address the root cause of the conflict, including territorial cuts, a sharp cut in Ukraine's armed forces and ensuring that the country will never join NATO.
Then, after a phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US canceled the summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. It is known that after this phone call, Secretary of State Rubio told President Trump that Russia did not show any willingness to negotiate.
In October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that although Ukraine was ready for peace negotiations, it would not withdraw troops in advance from the territories as requested by Russia.
