Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump at a gift shop in downtown Moscow, Russia, on October 21, 2025. OLESYA KURPYAYEVA / AFP
United States President Donald Trump has no immediate plans to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, a US official said Tuesday, days after Trump said they would meet within two weeks in Budapest.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by telephone on Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, after Trump said that the two top diplomats would be meeting this week to arrange a Budapest summit.
"There are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future," a Trump administration official told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity. The official nonetheless called the call between Rubio and Lavrov "productive." The Kremlin also said Tuesday there was no "precise timeframe" for a summit between Trump and Putin.
The Russian leader spoke by telephone on Thursday with Trump, who was set to meet the following day with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss providing US-made Tomahawk missiles that could penetrate deep into Russia. Trump hailed the call as progress and quickly posted on social media that he would meet within two weeks with Putin in Budapest.
