Trump cancels Putin meeting, says conversations go well but yield no results
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Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:10:00 +0300

He said this during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.“Everytime I speak with Vladimir (ed. - Putin), I have good conversations, then they don't go anywhere,” Trump said.He said he canceled the planned meeting in Budapest because “it didn't feel right,” and promised to hold it later.According to Trump, he has always felt that Putin "wanted the whole thing, not a piece of it" — and the United States doesn’t want that. In his view, the Russian leader is ready for talks.“Hopefully Putin will become reasonable and hopefully Zelenskyy will be reasonable, too. It takes two to tango,” the American president emphasized.He also emphasized that it takes at least six months to learn how to operate Tomahawk missiles, noting that "The only way is if we shoot it." However, Trump added that the United States would not carry out such launches itself.“Ukraine is not using our missiles, they are using European missiles. I don't control that. I control our missiles and they are not shooting our missiles,” said the U.S. leader.He also emphasized that the United States does not sell weapons to Ukraine but to NATO.On October 21, it became known that a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is not planned in the near future. Preparations for the Budapest summit, which had been announced earlier, have been halted.
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