🇷🇺🇺🇸 Trump has canceled plans for a Budapest summit with Putin, saying it would be a “waste of time.”

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Trump has canceled plans for a Budapest summit with Putin, saying it would be a “waste of time.”

➡️ The White House concluded that Russia is still clinging to its maximalist demands, including full control of the Donbas region, rejecting Trump’s proposal to freeze the war along current frontlines.

➡️ A senior U.S. official said Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s call with Lavrov showed that “Russia’s position has remained largely unchanged.”

➡️ Trump told reporters he’ll announce his updated Ukraine peace plan within 48 hours, insisting the war “will end.”

➡️ The Kremlin, meanwhile, reiterated that no NATO troops can be part of any peace deal.