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trump Canceled Planned Summit with Putin Following Russia‘s Demands,Report Says
Washington D.C. - Former U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a planned summit with Russian President vladimir Putin due to what sources describe as Russia’s uncompromising demands regarding the conflict in Ukraine, according to a report by the Financial Times.
The cancellation occurred shortly after a phone call between Trump and Putin where they discussed potential avenues for ending russia’s invasion of Ukraine and tentatively agreed to meet in Budapest. following this call, the Russian Foreign Ministry communicated to Washington a list of conditions Russia insisted be addressed, framing them as the “root causes” of the invasion.
These conditions, as reported by the Financial Times, included critically important territorial concessions from Ukraine, a ample reduction in the size of the Ukrainian armed forces, and a permanent guarantee that Ukraine woudl not join NATO.
The decision to cancel the summit followed a conversation between U.S.Secretary of state Marco Rubio and Trump.According to a source cited by the Financial Times, Rubio informed Trump that Russia demonstrated no willingness to genuinely negotiate. American officials had reportedly grown increasingly skeptical of productive talks given Moscow’s position.
The Financial Times reports that U.S. representatives were taken aback by the inflexibility displayed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who, during a September meeting with Rubio in New York, reiterated unsubstantiated claims about a Nazi-led government in Ukraine.
Sources indicate that Trump would remain open to discussions with russia if he believed a meeting could yield a breakthrough. However, Putin reportedly frustrated Trump during their October 16th phone call by highlighting alleged Russian military successes near Kupiansk and along the Oskil River. Following this call, Trump reportedly expressed reservations about providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, citing concerns about potential escalation.
The Financial Times also reported that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to make concessions to Russia during a meeting at the White House, during which he reportedly displayed frustration with maps of Ukraine.
Despite canceling the summit, Trump afterward imposed sanctions on two of Russia’s largest oil companies and publicly criticized Putin’s testing of nuclear weapons, urging him to pursue peace negotiations.
Responding to the Financial Times report,Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated,according to Reuters,that official statements from the Russian and American foreign ministries should be the sole source of information,and that media reports should be disregarded.
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