Moscow denies reports of cancelled preparations for Putin-Trump meeting
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and a member of the Kremlin's negotiation team, has denied Western media reports claiming that preparations for a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have been halted. He said that preparations for the summit in Budapest are ongoing.
Source: European Pravda, citing Dmitriev on X (Twitter)
Details: Dmitriev claimed that the media were "twisting comments" from White House sources about the suspension of preparations for the Putin-Trump meeting in Budapest in order to undermine the summit.
"Preparations continue," he said.
He also shared a post from Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who said that supporters of war would try to create an information backdrop to disrupt the meeting.
Background:
- Western news agencies have reported unofficially that after a conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the Russian side handed the US an informal document repeating its previous maximalist demands for ending the war against Ukraine.
- Russia's rejection of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine has cast doubt on the planned Budapest meeting between Trump and Putin.
- An unnamed White House official told reporters that the US no longer sees the need for a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which had been planned as part of preparations for the leader-level summit.
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