Donald Trump has called off his planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest.
The US president said he doesn’t believe the talks would yield the desired results at this stage of the dialogue.
Trump made the announcement on Wednesday during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House. He said the planned summit in Hungary “did not feel right.”
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“It did not feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get, so I canceled it,” he said.
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Trump did not rule out a meeting with his Russian counterpart at a later date
RT reports: Trump’s remarks come shortly after the US Treasury Department unveiled additional sanctions on Russia, citing its “lack of serious commitment to a peace process.” The restrictions targeted two of Russia’s largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as their subsidiaries.
Trump, however, admitted he was unsure whether the new sanctions would change Russia’s stance on the Ukraine conflict. “Hopefully he [Putin] will become reasonable, and hopefully [Ukraine’s Vladimir] Zelensky will be reasonable too,” he said. “It takes two to tango.”
Plans for a Putin–Trump summit were first announced last week after the two leaders spoke by phone, although no specific date had been set.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov earlier said the Russia-US meeting should be preceded by “serious preparations,” emphasizing that a summit between the two leaders “should not be wasted,” as both presidents “are accustomed to working for a result.”
