Currently exist "no arrangements" for US President President Trump to confer with Russia's Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a administration representative has stated.
Recently the US president indicated he and the Russian president would hold talks in Hungary's capital within two weeks to examine the Ukraine conflict.
A preparatory meeting between America's top diplomat Secretary Rubio and his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Lavrov was due to be held recently - but the administration clarified the two had had a "positive" discussion and that a meeting was no longer "necessary".
The White House declined to provide further information on the reason the negotiations had been postponed.
The US president had raised the possibility of a Budapest summit via telephone with the Russian leader, a just prior to hosting Ukraine's President Zelensky in the White House.
Certain accounts indicated his meeting with the Ukrainian leader had been a "heated exchange", with insiders claiming the president had pressured him to relinquish extensive regions of eastern Ukraine as part of a agreement with Moscow.
However, on Monday Trump supported a ceasefire proposal supported by Kyiv and EU officials to halt the war on the present positions.
"Leave it as is where it stands," he stated.
Moscow has repeatedly pushed back against pausing the existing front lines.
Moscow was exclusively seeking "long-term, sustainable peace", Lavrov commented on this week, indicating that halting hostilities would merely represent a brief pause.
The "root causes" of the war needed to be addressed, the Russian diplomat emphasized, using Russian diplomatic language for a range of comprehensive conditions that include the acceptance of total Russian authority over the Donbas as well as the military reduction of the country – a impossible condition for Kyiv and its European partners.
Zelensky stated talks regarding the front line were the "commencement of dialogue" but that Russia was "taking all measures" to prevent dialogue.
He further commented the exclusive issue that could make Moscow "take notice" was that of the supply of long-range weapons to Ukraine.
The Russian president's spontaneous discussion with the US leader recently occurred before speculation that the United States was planning to provide distance-capable weapons to Ukraine that could theoretically target deep into Russia.
The Ukrainian leader said it was the weapons consideration that had forced Russia to participate in talks. The talk about the weapons systems had emerged as a "valuable contribution" in negotiations", he remarked.
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