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Vladimir Putin e Donald Trump
Kremlin rejects pause in Ukraine and denies joint trip between its president and the president of the USA. Hungary has a different version.
Donald Trump has no plans for if find with Vladimir Putin “in the immediate future”, commented a White House official this Tuesday.
On the same day, the Kremlin denied that the President of Russia and his North American counterpart are planning a trip to same plane for an expected meeting in Hungary.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, said that the possibility of the two heads of state traveling on the same plane “is a fantasia” and an “absurd theory”.
Peskov was answering questions about news that indicated that a trip for Trump and Putin on the same plane was being prepared.
He stated that he still there is no date for the meeting between the Russian and American heads of state in Budapest, capital of Hungary, during which solutions on the war in Ukraine are expected.
The meeting requires serious preparation and time, Peskov said, stressing that consultations and negotiations are necessary.
From Hungary comes a somewhat different version: Viktor Orbán ensures that the preparations continue, that there will even be a meeting in Budapest between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
This Wednesday, the Prime Minister of Hungary stated: “Preparations for the peace summit continue. The date is still uncertain. When the time comes, we will hold it.”
And Donald Trump has already said he will be with Vladimir Putin “in two weeks”.
This meeting was suspended because the Russian government rejected a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The channel highlights that Ukraine continues to demand a ceasefire; Only with this starting point will you start negotiations.
But Russia continues to refuse this scenario: it claims that it contradicts the ideas that Putin and Trump exchanged in .