No immediate plans for Trump-Putin meeting, White House official says

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There are "no plans" for US President Donald Trump to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has stated.

Last Thursday Trump said he and the Russian president would hold talks in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine.

A preparatory meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was due to be held this week - but the White House said the two had had a "productive" call and that a meeting was no longer "necessary".

The White House did not share any more details on why the talks had been put on hold.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gjp73gp41o

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1. TACO Tuesday!

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2. Poland threatens Putin with arrest if he flies through its airspace on way to Hungary

Another reason why there will NOT be a trump/Putin summit is the fact that Putin is a war criminal. Putin cannot easily get to Budapest without going through airspace of countries who want to arrest him

Poland threatens Putin with arrest if he flies through its airspace on way to Hungary –
Poland’s foreign minister says Putin’s plane could be escorted down and Russian president handed to The Hague www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

— MissKrisss (@misskrisss.bsky.social) 2025-10-21T13:13:49.057Z

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/21/nicolas-sarkozy-france-jail-russia-ukraine-europe-news-live-updates

Poland warned Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday against travelling through its airspace for a summit in Hungary with US president Donald Trump, saying it could be forced to execute an international arrest warrant if he did, Reuters reports.

Bulgaria, however, would be willing to let Putin use its airspace if the summit is held in Hungary, foreign minister Georg Georgiev was quoted as saying.

Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski told Radio Rodzina:

I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won’t order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand the suspect to the court in The Hague.

And, therefore, if this summit is to take place, hopefully with the participation of the victim of the aggression, the aircraft will use a different route.

The ICC warrant obligates the court’s member states to arrest Putin if he sets foot on their territory.