The postponement of Donald Trump’s much-anticipated summit with Vladimir Putin in Budapest had seemed to confirm all his critics’ fears. At the White House on Tuesday, the president explained that he did not want a “wasted meeting”.

President Trump said last week that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Budapest, Hungary, though he did not say when.

After he was briefed on what the senior official described as a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, Trump essentially pressed pause — believing both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict were not ready to seriously talk peace, the official said.

NATO boss Mark Rutte has admitted President Donald Trump is the only Western leader who can push Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war.

After plans for a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump were shelved, Ukraine is appealing to allies for more support in an effort to dial up the pressure on Russia.

The United States has imposed “substantial” sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies over Vladimir Putin ’s refusal to end the “senseless” war in Ukraine.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin needs to be made aware that any infringement or provocation against a NATO member will have unbearable consequences for him. — Ukrinform.

President Donald Trump is slapping Russia with one of the biggest ever packages of US sanctions after concluding that Vladimir Putin was not being "honest and forthright" in Ukraine talks, the US treasury chief said Wednesday.