Tense relationship between Washington and Moscow. The Kremlin responded this Wednesday to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about the , that “no one wants to waste time.”
“No one wants to waste time. Not President Trump, not President Putin,” said Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, in his daily telephone press conference, after the US president assured that he does not want to “waste time” with “a useless meeting.”
The White House confirmed this Tuesday that the meeting between Trump and Putin scheduled in Budapest for the end of October will not take place in the “immediate future.”
The announcement came after a call between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and also days after the US leader apparently tried to get kyiv to accept Moscow’s conditions for a ceasefire.
However, Trump is optimistic that the war will end: “I think Putin wants it to end, and I think Zelensky wants it to end, and I think it will end.”
