US President Donald Trump said Tuesday his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin was on hold because he didn’t want it to be a “waste of time”, the latest twist in Trump’s stop-and-go effort to resolve the war in Ukraine.
The decision to hold off on the meeting in Budapest, Hungary, which Trump had announced last week, was made following a call on Monday between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“I don’t want to have a wasted meeting,” Trump said. “I don’t want to have a waste of time, so we’ll see what happens.”
Trump's comments came after Lavrov made clear that Russia is opposed to an immediate ceasefire that Trump proposed last week, telling journalists in Moscow that
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