U.S. Scrapped Trump-Putin Budapest Summit
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A meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was scrapped after Moscow sent a memo outlining tough preconditions for Ukraine talks, according to the Financial Times. Follow DW for the latest.
The recent flurry of diplomatic theatre, culminating in President Donald Trump’s abrupt cancellation of a proposed meeting with Vladimir Putin in Budapest and the accompanying US pressure on Moscow, has brought into focus a brittle equilibrium in the Russia–Ukraine war.
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