Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Vitaly Mutko, the chief executive officer of Dom.RF, not pictured, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Monday. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin was on hold because he doesn’t want it to be a “waste of time.” It was the latest twist in Trump’s stop-and-go effort to resolve the war in Ukraine.

The decision to hold off on the meeting in Budapest, Hungary, which Trump had announced last week, was made following a call Monday between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

“I don’t want to have a wasted meeting,” Trump said. “I don’t want to have a waste

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