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Currently exist "no preparations" for US President Donald Trump to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the near term", a administration representative has declared.

Recently Trump said he and the Russian president would conduct negotiations in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the ongoing hostilities.

A initial discussion between America's top diplomat Secretary Rubio and his opposite number Foreign Minister Lavrov was due to be held this week - but the administration clarified the two had had a "positive" call and that a meeting was no longer "required".

The administration declined to provide any more details on why the talks had been postponed.

Previous Developments

The US president had raised the possibility of a Budapest summit via telephone with Putin, a day before meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Various sources indicated his talks with Zelensky had been a "contentious discussion", with those familiar indicating Trump had pushed him to relinquish significant territories of eastern Ukraine as part of a deal with Moscow.

Nevertheless, on this week Trump supported a peace initiative supported by Kyiv and European leaders to halt the hostilities on the current front line.

"Let it be cut the way it is," he stated.

Moscow has consistently objected against pausing the existing front lines.

The Russian government was exclusively seeking "long-term, sustainable peace", Lavrov commented on this week, implying that pausing conflict would only amount to a temporary ceasefire.

Political Perspectives

The "root causes" of the hostilities demanded attention, the Russian diplomat emphasized, using Russian diplomatic language for a set of maximalist demands that include the recognition of full Russian sovereignty over the eastern region as well as the disarmament of Ukraine – a impossible condition for Kyiv and its Western allies.

Zelensky said talks regarding the current lines were the "commencement of dialogue" but that Moscow was "employing all tactics" to avoid diplomacy.

He additionally stated the exclusive issue that could cause Russia to "pay attention" was that of the provision of long-range weapons to Ukraine.

Weapons Discussions

The Russian president's unplanned conversation with Trump recently occurred before reports that the US was planning to provide long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine that could potentially strike deep into Russia.

Zelensky stated it was the Tomahawks issue that had forced Russia to participate in talks. The discussion regarding the missiles had turned out to be a "strong investment" in diplomacy", he added.