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After Trump's long phone call with Putin, the US president had estimated that a possible summit in Budapest would take place within two weeks...
The Kremlin said today that it was not clear when a summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, would take place, and that neither side had announced any date.
Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, the bloodiest in Europe since World War II, although he has commented that achieving peace is more difficult than achieving a ceasefire in Gaza or ending the India-Pakistan conflict.
After speaking by phone with Putin on October 16, Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov would meet this week ahead of a possible summit in Budapest in two weeks.
Moscow did not give a date.
But CNN quoted an unidentified White House official as saying that the expected Rubio-Lavrov meeting is currently "frozen."
He cited a source who said Rubio and Lavrov have different expectations regarding a possible end to the war.
Lavrov told reporters that he and Rubio agreed to continue telephone contacts, while the Kremlin called postponing a meeting for which a date has not yet been set impossible.
"Listen, we have the presidents' agreement, but we cannot postpone what has not been finalized. Neither President Trump nor President Putin gave exact dates. Preparation is needed, serious preparation. This may take time. This is essentially why exact dates were not given from the beginning," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Asked if Moscow knows a possible date for the summit, Peskov replied: "No, we don't know."
Poland on Tuesday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin not to travel through its airspace to attend a summit in Budapest, Hungary, with US President Donald Trump, saying he would be forced to execute an international arrest warrant if he did so.
The International Criminal Court, based in The Hague, issued an arrest warrant for Putin in 2023, charging him with the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. Russia does not recognize the ICC's jurisdiction and denies the charges.
"I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court will not order the government to escort such a plane to hand over the suspect to the Hague tribunal," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Radio Rodzina.
The ICJ's arrest warrant obliges the court's member states to arrest Putin if he trespasses on their territory.
"I think the Russian side is aware of this. Therefore, if the summit takes place, I hope with the participation of the victim of aggression, the planes will use a different route," Sikorsky said.
Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orban maintains warm relations with Russia, said it would ensure Putin's entry into the country for the summit and his return to his country after it ends.
However, to avoid flying over Ukraine, the Russian delegation would have to fly through the airspace of at least one European Union member state, be it Romania, Poland or Slovakia.
All EU member states are members of the ICC, although Hungary is in the process of withdrawing from the court.
Poland, a NATO member, has been one of Kiev's most ardent supporters since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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