WASHINGTON >> There are no plans for President Donald Trump to meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in the immediate future, a White House official said tosday, a pivot after Trump suggested last week that he would meet his Russian counterpart soon in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine.

Trump said last week that he planned on meeting with Putin after senior American and Russian officials spoke. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, then had a “productive call,” the official said.

It is unclear whether Trump and Putin are still discussing meeting in Budapest in the more distant future. Trump was unclear about a date for the meeting but indicated it would happen soon after senior officials from each country spoke.

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