The US cancelled President Donald Trump’s planned Budapest summit with Vladimir Putin after a Russian memo to Washington holding firm to hardline demands on Ukraine was swiftly followed by a tense call between the two countries’ top diplomats, said people familiar with the matter.
Earlier this month, Trump and Putin agreed over the phone to meet in the Hungarian capital to discuss how to end the Russian president’s war in Ukraine.
Days later, Russia’s foreign ministry sent a memo to Washington underlining the same demands to address what Putin calls the “root causes” of his three-and-a-half-year invasion, three people familiar with the matter said.
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