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

Recently the US president said he and the Kremlin leader would hold talks in Budapest in the coming fortnight to discuss the ongoing hostilities.

A initial discussion between America's top diplomat Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Lavrov was planned for this week - but the administration stated the two had had a "constructive" discussion and that a meeting was no longer "required".

The White House did not share any more details on the reason the negotiations had been postponed.

Earlier Events

The US president had discussed a Budapest summit via telephone with the Russian leader, a day before hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Some reports claimed his meeting with the Ukrainian leader had been a "shouting match", with those familiar indicating the president had urged him to cede significant territories of Ukraine's east as part of a agreement with Moscow.

Nevertheless, on this week Trump embraced a peace initiative endorsed by Ukraine and European leaders to halt the hostilities on the current front line.

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

Russia has consistently objected against pausing the present battle positions.

Moscow was solely focused on "permanent resolution", Lavrov stated on this week, suggesting that freezing the front line would merely represent a short-term truce.

Political Perspectives

The "underlying reasons" of the conflict demanded attention, the Russian diplomat said, using Moscow's terminology for a set of comprehensive conditions that encompass the recognition of complete Moscow control over the Donbas as well as the disarmament of Ukraine – a non-starter for Kyiv and its European partners.

The Ukrainian president commented conversations concerning the current lines were the "start of negotiations" but that Russia was "doing everything" to avoid diplomacy.

He further commented the only topic that could cause Russia to "become engaged" was that of the provision of long-range weapons to the Ukrainian military.

Strategic Factors

The Russian president's unplanned conversation with Trump recently occurred before rumors that the United States was considering delivering distance-capable weapons to Ukrainian forces that could potentially strike deep into Russia.

Zelensky stated it was the Tomahawks issue that had forced Russia to engage in discussion. The talk about the missiles had turned out to be a "strong investment" in international relations", he remarked.