Much work remains before possible Putin-Trump talks: Kremlin
Oct 21, 2025
New York [US], October 21: The Kremlin said on Monday that substantial groundwork was still needed before a planned summit in Budapest between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. "There's still a lot of homework to be done," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russia's TASS news agency.
He said that teams from both countries would first need to resolve a number of outstanding issues and that "preparations for the summit have not been fully started yet." Peskov stressed that Russia's position on the war it launched has not changed.
He was responding to Trump's remarks on Sunday, when he proposed the fighting be frozen along the current "battle lines." "Let it be cut the way it is. It's cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is right now," he told reporters on Air Force One. "They can negotiate something later on down the line. But I said cut and stop at the battle line. Go home. Stop fighting, stop killing people." (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
