Currently exist "no plans" for American leader President Trump to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has declared.
Last Thursday Trump said he and the Kremlin leader would conduct negotiations in Budapest in the coming fortnight to discuss the Ukraine conflict.
A preparatory meeting between America's top diplomat Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was due to be held recently - but the White House said the two had had a "constructive" conversation and that a meeting was not "required".
The White House did not share additional specifics on why the talks had been postponed.
The US president had discussed a Hungarian meeting via telephone with Putin, a day before hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.
Certain accounts claimed his meeting with Zelensky had been a "shouting match", with sources suggesting the president had pressured him to cede large areas of eastern Ukraine as part of a deal with Russia.
However, on this week Trump endorsed a peace initiative endorsed by Ukraine and European leaders to freeze the conflict on the present positions.
"Leave it as is the way it is," he remarked.
Russia has repeatedly pushed back against freezing the current line of contact.
The Russian government was exclusively seeking "long-term, sustainable peace", Russia's foreign minister stated on Tuesday, indicating that freezing the front line would merely represent a brief pause.
The "underlying reasons" of the war required resolution, Lavrov stated, using Kremlin shorthand for a set of maximalist demands that encompass the acceptance of complete Moscow control over the Donbas as well as the military reduction of Ukraine – a non-starter for Ukraine and its Western allies.
The Ukrainian president stated discussions about the current lines were the "start of negotiations" but that Russia was "taking all measures" to avoid diplomacy.
He additionally stated the exclusive issue that could cause Russia to "become engaged" was that of the supply of long-range weapons to the Ukrainian military.
The Russian president's spontaneous discussion with Trump last Thursday preceded reports that the US was planning to provide extended-range cruise missiles to Ukrainian forces that could possibly hit deep into Russia.
Zelensky said it was the missile discussion that had forced Russia to engage in discussion. The talk about the missiles had emerged as a "strong investment" in international relations", he commented.
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