The planned meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest is off the table, multiple outlets report. A White House official said on Tuesday there are no plans for a meeting “in the immediate future,” ABC News noted. The announcement follows a conversation between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. BREAKING: Trump’s meeting with Putin in Hungary called off — The Telegraph pic.twitter.com/JG8HSgYUpo — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 21, 2025 POLITICO shared: “Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. “Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.” The rapid dissolution of plans for another summit between Trump and Putin just two months after they met in Alaska stemmed again from Russia’s refusal to budge from its maximalist positions on what it would take for it to halt its war in Ukraine. In a press conference in Moscow Tuesday, Lavrov said he informed Rubio that Russia’s position — that a peace agreement must come before a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine — has not changed. “I believe American officials have concluded that Russia’s position has remained largely unchanged over time and remains within the bounds of its initial maximalist demands,” Lavrov said. “Russia has not altered its positions compared to understandings and prolonged negotiations between Putin and Trump in Alaska.” Lavrov ‘dismissed’ media reports that the Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest was postponed, according to RT. Watch Lavrov’s comments below: Lavrov dismisses media reports that Putin-Trump meeting in Hungary has been postponed 'I was surprised to read that today' https://t.co/4f0KEaOYLe pic.twitter.com/jIcO1frNAT — RT (@RT_com) October 21, 2025 ABC News provided further info: Zelenskyy was in Washington to make his case for coveted U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles and other military assets. Zelenskyy said on Monday that the Trump administration decided not to provide Ukraine with the long-range Tomahawks that would give Kyiv the ability to strike deeper inside Russia, but said the “issue is not off the table.” Still, Zelenskyy described the White House meeting as positive and said he was waiting to see whether he would be invited to join the now-called off sitdown between Trump and Putin in Budapest. Trump has called for the Russia-Ukraine war to end along its current battle lines, and denied a report from the Financial Times that he insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Russia. On Monday, Trump softened his previous comments when he said he believed Ukraine could win back all its territory currently occupied by Russia. “Well they could,” Trump said. “They could still win it. I don’t think they will but they could still win it. I never said they would win it. I said they — anything can happen. You know war is a very strange thing. A lot of bad things happen. A lot of good things happen.”