Reference News Network, October 22 report. According to the website of Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao", the U.S. White House stated that the summit between U.S. and Russian leaders in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, has been postponed due to Moscow's refusal to immediately cease hostilities in Ukraine. However, Russia said that the summit is still being prepared.
A senior U.S. official told Reuters on the 21st, "President Trump does not have plans for a meeting with President Putin in the near future."
However, Dmitryev, a special representative of Putin, posted on a social media platform on the same day that the summit between Russian and U.S. leaders is still being prepared.
When asked about this by reporters at the White House, Trump said he did not want to hold a meeting with Putin that would be "a waste of time," which again indicates that the second summit between the two may have been called off.
According to another report from the website of Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" on October 22, two U.S. officials and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters that Russia sent a private bulletin named "informal document" to the United States over the weekend, reiterating Moscow's long-standing terms for a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
The bulletin reiterated Russia's demand for full control over the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, and rejected Trump's proposal for a ceasefire that would freeze the current front lines between Russia and Ukraine.
A senior Ukrainian official told AFP on the 21st that during a meeting held in Washington last week on how to end the war in Ukraine, Trump had pressured Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy to give up the entire Donbas region.
When asked if Trump had urged Zelenskyy to withdraw troops from areas still under his control, the unnamed official said, "Yes, indeed."
This source added that the negotiations between Ukraine and Trump were "tense and difficult," and diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war felt like "delaying" and "going in circles."
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