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There are "no arrangements" for American leader Donald Trump to confer with Russia's Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has announced.

Recently Trump indicated he and the Kremlin leader would meet in Budapest soon to address the war in Ukraine.

A initial discussion between America's top diplomat Secretary Rubio and his opposite number Sergei Lavrov was planned for this week - but the White House clarified the two had had a "constructive" call and that a meeting was not "required".

The administration declined to provide further information on why the talks had been put on hold.

Earlier Events

Trump had discussed a Hungarian meeting over the phone with Putin, a day before hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Certain accounts indicated his meeting with Zelensky had been a "contentious discussion", with sources suggesting Trump had urged him to give up significant territories of eastern Ukraine as part of a settlement with Russia.

Yet, on this week Trump supported a ceasefire proposal endorsed by Ukraine and European leaders to halt the war on the present positions.

"Let it be cut where it stands," he stated.

Russia has repeatedly pushed back against halting the current line of contact.

Moscow was solely focused on "permanent resolution", Lavrov stated on this week, suggesting that freezing the front line would only amount to a temporary ceasefire.

Diplomatic Positions

The "underlying reasons" of the hostilities required resolution, Lavrov stated, using Moscow's terminology for a range of maximalist demands that encompass the acknowledgment of complete Moscow control over the Donbas as well as the demilitarisation of Ukraine – a impossible condition for Ukraine and its EU supporters.

The Ukrainian president said conversations concerning the front line were the "beginning of diplomacy" but that Russia was "taking all measures" to evade negotiations.

He additionally stated the sole subject that could make Moscow "become engaged" was that of the delivery of long-range weapons to the Ukrainian military.

Strategic Factors

Putin's spontaneous discussion with the US leader last Thursday preceded rumors that the US was considering delivering long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine that could potentially strike deep into Russia.

Zelensky said it was the Tomahawks issue that had pressured the Kremlin to participate in talks. The conversation concerning the missiles had emerged as a "valuable contribution" in international relations", he added.