No plans for Putin-Trump summit in 'immediate future,' Lavrov-Rubio meeting also shelved

There are currently no plans for U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet in the immediate future, a State Department spokesperson told the Kyiv Independent.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also do not plan to meet in person in the near future, though they held a "productive" call on Oct. 20. An additional meeting between the officials is "not necessary," a State Department spokesperson said.

The news follows Trump's announcement on Oct. 16 that he would meet Putin in Budapest in the coming weeks to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

NBC News correspondent Garrett Haake said on X that the planning for the Budapest summit is "on hold" at the moment, according to an undisclosed senior White House official. Similar information was reported by the BBC and CBS News.

The unexpected turn of events comes only hours after Russian officials said that preparatory work for the Budapest summit is still ongoing, though no date has been agreed upon.

The summit, hosted by Hungary's Moscow-friendly prime minister, Viktor Orban, was set to be the second meeting between Putin and Trump since the latter returned to office in January. The two leaders met in Alaska on Aug. 15 to discuss a path toward ending the war in Ukraine, but made little progress.

The planned high-level talks, met with surprise in Kyiv and other European capitals, were to be preceded by meetings between senior U.S. and Russian delegation, led by Rubio and Lavrov, respectively.