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

Last Thursday the US president stated he and the Kremlin leader would hold talks in Budapest soon to discuss the war in Ukraine.

A initial discussion between America's top diplomat Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Lavrov was due to be held this week - but the White House said the two had had a "constructive" conversation and that a meeting was no longer "needed".

The administration withheld further information on the reason the negotiations had been put on hold.

Previous Developments

Trump had discussed a Hungarian meeting over the phone with the Russian leader, a just prior to hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.

Certain accounts claimed his meeting with the Ukrainian leader had been a "heated exchange", with insiders claiming the president had urged him to relinquish large areas of eastern Ukraine as part of a settlement with Moscow.

Nevertheless, on this week Trump endorsed a peace initiative endorsed by Kyiv and European leaders to halt the hostilities on the existing battle lines.

"Leave it as is the way it is," he stated.

Russia has consistently objected against pausing the current line of contact.

The Russian government was exclusively seeking "enduring stability", Russia's foreign minister stated on this week, indicating that pausing conflict would simply constitute a short-term truce.

Diplomatic Positions

The "fundamental issues" of the war demanded attention, the Russian diplomat stated, using Moscow's terminology for a series of comprehensive conditions that include the acceptance of full Russian sovereignty over the eastern region as well as the disarmament of the country – a impossible condition for Kyiv and its Western allies.

Zelensky said talks regarding the front line were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Russia was "taking all measures" to avoid diplomacy.

He also said the only topic that could cause Russia to "pay attention" was that of the delivery of distance-capable munitions to the Ukrainian military.

Military Considerations

The Russian president's unplanned conversation with the US leader recently came ahead of speculation that the United States was preparing to send distance-capable weapons to Ukraine that could potentially strike Russian territory.

Zelensky asserted it was the missile discussion that had compelled Moscow to participate in talks. The talk about the weapons systems had proven to be a "significant input" in international relations", he commented.