The United States has canceled a planned meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after a Russian memo was sent to Washington. It showed that Moscow does not plan to make any concessions from its demands for ending the war in Ukraine. This was written by the Financial Times (FT) on Friday, referring to its sources, TASR reports according to the Reuters agency.
- The United States canceled the planned meeting between Trump and Putin.
- The Russian memorandum contained demands related to the conflict in Ukraine.
- Moscow demands a solution to the root causes of the conflict and territorial concessions from Kyiv.
- The US imposed sanctions on the Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil.
- The phone call between Lavrov and Rubio resulted in the decision to cancel the meeting.
Trump agreed on a meeting in Budapest with Putin during their phone call on October 16. However, the head of the White House canceled the meeting last Wednesday. “It just didn’t feel right. I didn’t feel like we were getting where we needed to be. So I canceled it, but we’ll see each other in the future.” Trump explained. On the same day, the US imposed sanctions on the Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil.
According to FT sources, after the phone call between the presidents, Russia sent a memorandum to the US government. It emerged from him that Moscow continues to demand that the “root causes of the conflict” in Ukraine be resolved and that Kiev cede more territory to Russiareduced the size of his military and never joined NATO.
Subsequently, there was a phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio. After the conversation, he concluded that Moscow was not willing to negotiate, and the United States canceled the meeting between Trump and Putin.
