From summit to no summit How Trump's planned meeting with Putin on European soil unraveled within days ( Meduza )

[Passages]

2:18 pm, October 22, 2025

Source: Meduza


On October 16, a day before meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Vladimir Putin — and announced plans to meet with the Russian president in Hungary. The move caught European capitals off guard and set off a flurry of reactions. Hungary, which is technically obliged to arrest Putin under an International Criminal Court warrant, quickly agreed to host him. Other E.U. leaders were far less enthusiastic, and questions soon arose about how Putin could travel to landlocked Hungary given the E.U.’s blanket ban on Russian aircraft. All of that quickly became moot, however, when just days later, on October 21, the White House backtracked, saying no meeting was planned “in the immediate future.” Meduza breaks down the chain of events — from summit announcement to sudden cancellation.


October 16
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than two hours. After what he calls a “very productive” conversation, Trump announces plans to meet with Putin in Hungary “to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ war between Russia and Ukraine to an end.”

in full: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/22/from-summit-to-no-summit


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[usonian]

1. Translation: The videos that Trump bought from Putin at the last summit were ENCRYPTED. No password given.

[IbogaProject]

2. Actually it was every state in the filight path said they'd arrest Putin if he flew over

Hungary is landlocked and there was no safe flight route for Putin to evade arrest and shipment to the ICC.