In the near future, a meeting between the President of the United States of America Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is not planned. This is reported by Reuters citing an unnamed White House official.

The source said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also do not plan to meet in person. According to him, their telephone conversation was"productive."

It is noteworthy that earlier NBC News journalist Garrett Haake, citing a senior White House official, reported on social media: X that planning for the Budapest summit has been put on hold:

"The first phone call between Senator Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov was 'productive', but the US president believes both sides are not yet ready for talks to justify holding them now."

Trump and Putin meeting

A few days ago, the US President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with dictator Putin. Following the conversation, he announced that he would have a personal meeting with him in Budapest, Hungary.

It is noteworthy that Hungary is a member state of the ICC, which issued a warrant for Putin's arrest. And the dictator's route to Budapest itself was a problem. Bulgaria offered to provide the Russian ruler air corridor .

Putin will be afraid to fly to Budapest .