Day: October 21, 2025

Budapest meeting update

A senior Russian official stated that no agreement had ever been made for the meeting, and preparatory talks between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have been postponed indefinitely. There will not be an imminent meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Budapest
Timeline of the proposed Budapest summit
October 17, 2025: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discuss a ceasefire in Ukraine during a phone call, with Trump announcing afterward that a summit would take place in Budapest.
October 20, 2025: CNN reports that the preparatory meeting between Rubio and Lavrov was postponed. The Kremlin later denies that a meeting had ever been finalized, saying that “it’s impossible to postpone something that hasn’t been set in stone”.
October 21, 2025: Moscow reports that no precise timeframe has been set for a summit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had previously expressed concerns about being excluded from the talks.

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— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 21, 2025