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Plans for President Donald Trump to meet Vladimir Putin are on hold after a call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, a U.S. official said. The Budapest session had been announced but never scheduled. The Kremlin said there was no urgency and serious preparation is needed, while Kyiv and European leaders accused Moscow of stalling and vowed to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine. Trump’s shifting stance, including talk of freezing lines and carving up Donbas, meets warnings that only sustained pressure can bring peace as EU sanctions talks near.

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