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There are "no preparations" for US President President Trump to confer with Russian President Putin "in the immediate future", a administration representative has announced.

Last Thursday Trump stated he and the Kremlin leader would hold talks in Hungary's capital in the coming fortnight to discuss the ongoing hostilities.

A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was due to be held recently - but the White House clarified the two had had a "positive" discussion and that a face-to-face session was no longer "necessary".

The White House withheld further information on the reason the negotiations had been delayed.

Background Context

The US president had discussed a Budapest summit via telephone with the Russian leader, a day before hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.

Certain accounts indicated his talks with the Ukrainian leader had been a "heated exchange", with insiders claiming Trump had pressured him to cede extensive regions of Ukraine's east as part of a agreement with Moscow.

Yet, on this week Trump endorsed a ceasefire proposal backed by Ukraine and European leaders to freeze the war on the present positions.

"Freeze the lines the way it is," he remarked.

Russia has repeatedly pushed back against freezing the current line of contact.

The Russian government was exclusively seeking "enduring stability", Russia's foreign minister stated on Tuesday, implying that halting hostilities would only amount to a short-term truce.

Diplomatic Positions

The "root causes" of the war required resolution, Lavrov emphasized, using Kremlin shorthand for a series of maximalist demands that involve the acknowledgment of full Russian sovereignty over the Donbas as well as the disarmament of the country – a impossible condition for Kyiv and its European partners.

Zelensky said talks regarding the battle positions were the "commencement of dialogue" but that Moscow was "doing everything" to avoid diplomacy.

He further commented the sole subject that could make Moscow "pay attention" was that of the provision of long-range weapons to Ukraine.

Weapons Discussions

The Russian president's unplanned conversation with Trump recently came ahead of speculation that the US was preparing to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukrainian forces that could potentially strike inside Russia.

The Ukrainian leader asserted it was the Tomahawks issue that had compelled Moscow to engage in discussion. The discussion regarding the weapons systems had turned out to be a "valuable contribution" in international relations", he commented.