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Less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest in the coming weeks to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine, the summit appears to be off.

Trump announced the Budapest summit on Oct. 16 following a call with Putin, estimating that it would take place “within two weeks or so.” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were tasked with organizing the summit and were due to meet in the coming days to finalize plans; however, after the two held an initial call on Monday to discuss the details, the White House said on Tuesday that “an additional in-person meeting” between Rubio and Lavrov “is not necessary,” adding that “there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”

Less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest in the coming weeks to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine, the summit appears to be off.

Trump announced the Budapest summit on Oct. 16 following a

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