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Talk of a Trump-Putin summit, hailed as “progress” by President Trump last week, has fizzled. A US official confirmed Tuesday there are “no plans” for a meeting in the “immediate future.”
Last Thursday, Trump spoke with Putin and quickly announced on social media that a Budapest summit would happen “within two weeks.”
This prompted a “productive” call on Monday between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
However, the anonymous US official said Tuesday that no further in-person meeting between the diplomats was “necessary.”
The Kremlin echoed this, stating there is “no precise timeframe” for a summit. This comes after Trump hosted Putin in Alaska in August, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.