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Currently exist "no preparations" for American leader President Trump to confer with Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the near term", a White House official has declared.

Last Thursday the US president said he and the Kremlin leader would hold talks in Budapest soon to examine the ongoing hostilities.

A initial discussion between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his opposite number Foreign Minister Lavrov was scheduled to occur this week - but the administration stated the two had had a "positive" discussion and that a meeting was no longer "required".

The White House withheld further information on why the talks had been delayed.

Previous Developments

Trump had discussed a Budapest summit over the phone with Putin, a just prior to hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Certain accounts indicated his talks with the Ukrainian leader had been a "heated exchange", with insiders suggesting the president had pushed him to cede extensive regions of Ukraine's east as part of a agreement with Russia.

Nevertheless, on this week the American president endorsed a truce plan endorsed by Ukraine and European leaders to freeze the hostilities on the existing battle lines.

"Leave it as is in its current state," he said.

Moscow has repeatedly pushed back against halting the present battle positions.

Moscow was solely focused on "enduring stability", Russia's foreign minister said on this week, implying that freezing the front line would only amount to a brief pause.

Political Perspectives

The "fundamental issues" of the hostilities needed to be addressed, the Russian diplomat said, using Russian diplomatic language for a series of comprehensive conditions that involve the acknowledgment of complete Moscow control over the eastern region as well as the disarmament of Ukraine – a impossible condition for Ukraine and its European partners.

The Ukrainian president stated discussions about the battle positions were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Moscow was "employing all tactics" to evade negotiations.

He also said the exclusive issue that could cause Russia to "become engaged" was that of the delivery of long-range weapons to the Ukrainian military.

Military Considerations

The Russian president's spontaneous discussion with Trump recently came ahead of reports that the United States was planning to provide distance-capable weapons to Ukraine that could potentially strike deep into Russia.

Zelensky said it was the missile discussion that had forced Russia to participate in talks. The conversation concerning the weapons systems had emerged as a "strong investment" in negotiations", he remarked.