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Currently exist "no plans" for US President Donald Trump to confer with Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the near term", a administration representative has declared.

Last Thursday the US president indicated he and the Russian president would conduct negotiations in Hungary's capital within two weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine.

A initial discussion between America's top diplomat Marco Rubio and his opposite number Sergei Lavrov was scheduled to occur this week - but the White House said the two had had a "positive" call and that a meeting was no longer "needed".

The administration did not share any more details on why the talks had been delayed.

Background Context

The US president had discussed a Budapest summit over the phone with Putin, a just prior to hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Certain accounts claimed his meeting with the Ukrainian leader had been a "heated exchange", with sources indicating the president had pressured him to give up large areas of Ukraine's east as part of a deal with Russia.

Yet, on Monday the American president supported a truce plan supported by Kyiv and EU officials to pause the hostilities on the current front line.

"Let it be cut the way it is," he stated.

Moscow has consistently objected against freezing the present battle positions.

The Russian government was exclusively seeking "long-term, sustainable peace", Russia's foreign minister commented on Tuesday, indicating that pausing conflict would simply constitute a temporary ceasefire.

Political Perspectives

The "underlying reasons" of the conflict required resolution, Lavrov stated, using Moscow's terminology for a range of extensive requirements that include the acknowledgment of full Russian sovereignty over the eastern region as well as the military reduction of Ukraine – a impossible condition for Ukraine and its Western allies.

The Ukrainian president stated discussions about the battle positions were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Moscow was "doing everything" to prevent dialogue.

He further commented the exclusive issue that could make Moscow "become engaged" was that of the supply of distance-capable munitions to the Ukrainian military.

Weapons Discussions

The Russian president's spontaneous discussion with the US leader recently preceded reports that the US was considering delivering distance-capable weapons to Ukrainian forces that could possibly hit deep into Russia.

The Ukrainian leader stated it was the missile discussion that had pressured the Kremlin to engage in discussion. The conversation concerning the weapons systems had turned out to be a "strong investment" in international relations", he commented.