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Trump-Putin Meeting in Budapest Put on Hold Amid Diplomatic Tensions Over Ukraine

A planned meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest has been postponed, a US official said Tuesday, following a call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The delay comes amid concerns from European leaders that Putin is using diplomacy to buy time while continuing military operations in Ukraine.

Leaders from several European nations reaffirmed their opposition to any peace deal requiring Kyiv to surrender territory and said they would move forward with using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

Trump, who has alternated between pressuring Ukraine to concede la

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