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Currently exist "no preparations" for US President President Trump to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "anytime soon", a White House official has announced.

This past week Trump indicated he and the Russian president would hold talks in Budapest within two weeks to address the ongoing hostilities.

A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Secretary Rubio and his opposite number Sergei Lavrov was due to be held this week - but the White House stated the two had had a "positive" call and that a face-to-face session was not "needed".

The administration declined to provide any more details on why the talks had been delayed.

Previous Developments

The US president had discussed a Budapest summit over the phone with Putin, a day before hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.

Certain accounts claimed his meeting with the Ukrainian leader had been a "heated exchange", with insiders suggesting the president had pushed him to relinquish extensive regions of eastern Ukraine as part of a deal with Russia.

Nevertheless, on this week the American president supported a ceasefire proposal supported by Ukraine and EU officials to pause the conflict on the current front line.

"Freeze the lines where it stands," he remarked.

Moscow has repeatedly pushed back against halting the present battle positions.

The Russian government was exclusively seeking "enduring stability", Lavrov said on Tuesday, suggesting that halting hostilities would only amount to a short-term truce.

Political Perspectives

The "fundamental issues" of the conflict needed to be addressed, the Russian diplomat stated, using Kremlin shorthand for a set of maximalist demands that include the acceptance of total Russian authority over the Donbas as well as the demilitarisation of Ukraine – a non-starter for Kyiv and its Western allies.

The Ukrainian president said talks regarding the current lines were the "commencement of dialogue" but that Moscow was "doing everything" to prevent dialogue.

He additionally stated the only topic that could make Moscow "become engaged" was that of the supply of long-range weapons to Ukraine.

Weapons Discussions

The Russian president's unplanned conversation with Trump recently came ahead of rumors that the United States was preparing to send extended-range cruise missiles to Ukraine that could possibly hit Russian territory.

The Ukrainian leader asserted it was the Tomahawks issue that had pressured the Kremlin to enter into dialogue. The conversation concerning the missiles had emerged as a "strong investment" in negotiations", he commented.