The American president, said this Tuesday regarding the postponement of the expected summit with his Russian counterpart, that he does not want “a wasted meeting”, in reference to the difficulties in achieving rapprochement between Moscow and kyiv.
“I don’t want a useless meeting. I don’t want to waste time,” Trump said when asked by reporters at the White House about the reasons for the , initially scheduled for about two weeks, and also insisted that Russia and Ukraine should withdraw troops simply to stop the carnage.
“You go to the front line… And you retreat and you go home, and you all take a break, because there are two countries that are killing each other,” the Republican said during an event at the US presidential office to celebrate the Indian holiday of Diwali.
Trump assured that he will publicly notify new progress in this area “in the next two days” since, according to him, “a lot of things are happening” on the diplomatic front.
The White House confirmed yesterday afternoon 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 a bitter meeting at the White House between Trump and the Ukrainian president, in which the US leader apparently tried to get Kiev to accept Moscow’s conditions for a ceasefire.
“I think Putin wants it to end, and I think Zelensky wants it to end, and I think it will end.”
Trump, however, remained optimistic in his remarks yesterday, saying: “I think Putin wants it to end, and I think Zelensky wants it to end, and I think it’s going to end.”
During today’s event, in which prominent members of the Indian community in the US participated, Trump also once again insisted that Delhi has committed to gradually and that Indian President Narendra Modi assured him this in a phone call today.
In this context, the Secretary General of NATO, , began a visit to the United States this Tuesday to discuss negotiations with the American president regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Rutte will be in Washington throughout Wednesday and will meet with Trump there. “He will be in the United States to address various aspects related to NATO’s support for Ukraine and the efforts led by the United States to achieve lasting peace,” he said in statements to Europa Press.
Volunteers from the Plastdarm organization work to identify Russian bodies recovered from the front to return them to their families in Sloviansk, Ukraine, on October 21, 2025.
complicated scenario
Things on the battlefield are on fire. The Russian Armed Forces have launched more than 3,000 drones against targets in Ukraine so far in October, within an upward trend that, according to the British Intelligence services, began once the diplomatic parenthesis of the month of August, when Trump and Putin, were over.
In August, Russian forces used about 4,100 unmanned aircraft, but in September the figure already shot up to 5,500, according to a report released this Tuesday by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense. Experts consider that Putin “tried to demonstrate a supposed willingness” for dialogue, now distant. In September, Russia also launched four large-scale attacks, including one carried out on the seventh and which mobilized more than 800 devices, mostly drones, with a view to “complicating” the interception capacity of Ukrainian air defense systems.
As for the objectives, the “priority” is once again the energy infrastructure, “as it did before in the conflict,” explained British Intelligence, going back to previous winters. In October alone, it has already carried out four major bombings on this type of infrastructure.
