The Kremlin has said there is no immediate need to organise a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, despite both sides indicating that one could be arranged swiftly if required.
Speaking in an interview on Sunday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that while it would be possible to prepare such a meeting promptly, the current priority should instead be focused on working through the details of a potential settlement to the conflict in Ukraine.
“At this moment, what is needed is very meticulous work on the details of the (Ukraine) settlement problem,” Peskov said, according to Xinhua news agency, which cited the Russian news outlet TASS.
His comments came after recent exchanges between the two leaders regarding a possible meeting. Trump had announced after a phone conversation with Putin on October 16 that they would soon meet in Budapest, Hungary.
However, on October 22, Trump said he had cancelled the planned meeting, stating that it “just didn’t feel right to me” and that “it didn’t feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get.”
Putin later said the meeting was more likely postponed than cancelled, noting that it was the United States that had originally initiated the summit.
On October 26, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added that any future personal contact between the two leaders would depend on the US side.
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Putin and Trump last met in person on August 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. That summit concluded without any major agreement on a ceasefire or a framework for ending the war in Ukraine.
However, it marked the first in-person meeting between the Russian and US presidents since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Observers have noted that while Moscow remains open to high-level dialogue, the Kremlin’s current emphasis on diplomatic groundwork signals a cautious approach amid ongoing tensions and complex negotiations surrounding the conflict.
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