The phone call with Vladimir Putin It has been "very productive" and "great progress has been made," the US president wrote. Donald Trump, announcing that "a meeting of our senior advisors will be held next week. The initial meetings with the United States will be led by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio“And within two weeks, again according to the tycoon’s expectations, he and Putin are expected to meet in person in Budapest, Hungary, to “put an end to this inglorious war between Russia and Ukraine.”
The Kremlin confirms but actually reports that it was Russia itself that pushed for this solution, after Putin told Trump that Providing Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would harm the peace process and would compromise relations between the United States and Russia: "The phone call was made at Moscow's initiative," the Russian side said, although it appears that it was Trump who suggested Budapest as the location. Having landed in Washington specifically to meet Trump, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky He commented: "Tomorrow, we expect the momentum to curb terror and war, which has been successful in the Middle East, to help end Russia's war against Ukraine. We can already see that Moscow is rushing to resume dialogue as soon as it learned about the Tomahawks."
“I just spoke on the phone with President Donald Trump. Preparations are underway for the peace summit between the United States and Russia. Hungary is the island of peace,” he was quick to inform X. the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, ready to welcome the leaders for a meeting that could be historic, a few weeks after the one in Sharm El Sheikh that sealed peace, or at least a seemingly solid truce, in the Gaza Strip.
