The summit in Budapest, Hungary, where US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were set to meet to dicuss the latter's ongoing conflict with Ukraine, has been called off after a phone converstion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as per a report by the Associated Press .

A US official told the news agency that there will be no meeting between the two leaders in the ‘immediate future’.

The US President, in September, reversed his position that Ukraine would have to concede territory to Russia and suggested that Kyiv could win back all the territory it has lost to Russia. However, after a phone call with Putin last week and a subsequent meeting with Zelensky on Friday, Trump once again shifted his position and cal

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