一名白宫官员周二表示，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)和俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin)“近期内”没有会面的计划，取消了预计未来几周在匈牙利举行的峰会。
特朗普周四宣布，他和普京计划再次会面，并预测这将在“两周左右”内发生。
他说，首先，双方的高级顾问将进行讨论。
美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥和俄罗斯外长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫周一通了电话。预计两人不会在这个时候见面。
“卢比奥部长和拉夫罗夫外长进行了富有成效的通话。因此，国务卿和外交部长之间额外的面对面会晤是没有必要的，特朗普总统近期也没有与普京总统会晤的计划，”这位白宫官员说。
周二早些时候，克里姆林宫淡化了特朗普和普京之间可能的面对面会晤。克里姆林宫表示，峰会从未设定日期。
“你不能推迟没有预定的事情，”普京发言人说。
当被问及周二下午在椭圆形办公室庆祝排灯节的会议时，特朗普说，“我不想浪费会议。我不想浪费时间，所以我要看看会发生什么。”
当被问及自宣布计划在布达佩斯会见普京以来发生了什么变化时，特朗普说，“嗯，我什么也没说。我没说会。你知道，你永远不知道会发生什么。但是在这条战线上，在与乌克兰和俄罗斯的战争战线上，发生了很多事情。我们会在接下来的两天内得到通知。"
与此同时，根据北约的新闻稿，北约秘书长马克·吕特将于周三在华盛顿与川普会面。一名白宫官员证实了这次会面。
北约发言人表示，周五在伦敦举行的意愿联盟会议之前，两人将讨论乌克兰战争。
特朗普在中东取得外交成就后，再次努力结束俄罗斯-乌克兰冲突，因为莫斯科的入侵拖了三年半。
但自从他上周四与普京通电话以及上周五在白宫与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基举行面对面会晤以来，情况似乎没有什么变化。
泽连斯基在华府为自己辩护梦寐以求的美国战斧巡航导弹和其他军事资产。泽连斯基周一表示，特朗普政府决定不向乌克兰提供远程战斧导弹，这将使基辅有能力在俄罗斯境内实施更深入的打击，但他表示，“这个问题并没有被搁置。”
尽管如此，泽连斯基仍将白宫会议描述为积极的，并表示他正在等待看他是否会被邀请参加特朗普和普京之间的会谈。
特朗普呼吁俄乌战争按照目前的战线结束，并否认了英国《金融时报》的一篇报道，该报道称，特朗普坚持要求泽连斯基将整个顿巴斯地区交给俄罗斯。
周一，特朗普软化了他之前的言论，他说他认为乌克兰可以赢回目前被俄罗斯占领的所有领土。
“他们可以，”特朗普说。“他们仍然有可能赢。我不认为他们会赢，但他们仍然有可能赢。我从没说过他们会赢。我说他们-任何事都可能发生。你知道战争是一件非常奇怪的事情。很多不好的事情发生了。很多好事都发生了。”
周二宣布第二次特朗普-普京峰会暂时搁置，就在几个小时前，俄罗斯最高外交官表示，美国和俄罗斯在如何结束与乌克兰的战争方面仍然存在很大分歧。
“现在，华盛顿说我们需要立即停止，不要进一步讨论任何事情。我们需要停下来，让历史来决定。你看，如果我们停下来，我们就会忘记这场冲突的根源，这是唐纳德·特朗普上台时美国政府清楚明白的，”拉夫罗夫说。
Now Trump won't meet with Putin on Ukraine, White House official says
There are no plans for President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet "in the immediate future," a White House official said on Tuesday -- calling off a summit that was expected in Hungary in the coming weeks.
Trump announced on Thursday that he and Putin planned to meet again, and predicted it would occur "within two weeks or so."
First, he said, discussions would take place among senior advisers on both sides.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, held a phone call on Monday. It's not expected the two will meet in person at this point.
"Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call. 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 White House official said.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Kremlin downplayed a potential in person meeting between Trump and Putin. The Kremlin said there was never a date set for a summit.
"You can't postpone what was not scheduled," a Putin spokesman said.
Asked about the meeting Tuesday afternoon at an Oval Office event celebrating Diwali, Trump said, "I don't want to have a wasted meeting. I don't want to have a waste of time so I'll see what happens."
Asked what had changed since announcing his plans to meet with Putin in Budapest, Trump said, "Well, I didn't say anything. I didn't say it would. And, you know, you never know what's going to happen.But a lot of things are happening on that front, on the war front with Ukraine and Russia. And we’ll be notified over the next two days as to what we're doing."
Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will be in Washington on Wednesday for a meeting with Trump, according to a NATO news release. A White House official confirmed the meeting.
The two will discuss the war in Ukraine ahead of a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in London on Friday, a NATO spokesperson said.
Trump, on the heels of a diplomatic achievement in the Middle East, renewed his efforts to bring the Russia-Ukraine conflict to an end as Moscow's invasion drags on 3 1/2 years later.
But it appears little has changed since his phone call with Putin last Thursday and his face-to-face meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday.
Zelenskyy was in Washington to make his case forcoveted U.S. Tomahawk cruise missilesand 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."
Tuesday's announcement that a second Trump-Putin summit is side-tabled for now comes just hours after Russia's top diplomat signaled that the U.S. and Russia are still very far apart with regards to how to end the war with Ukraine.
"Now, Washington is saying that we need to stop immediately and not discuss anything further. We need to stop and let history decide. You see, if we just stop, we will forget about the root causes of this conflict, which the American administration clearly understood when Donald Trump came to power," Lavrov said.
