In detail…the latest preparations for the upcoming summit between Putin and Trump

Deputy US State Department spokeswoman Tommy Piggott said that Rubio "He stressed the importance of the upcoming meetings as an opportunity for Moscow and Washington to cooperate towards reaching a permanent solution to the war between Russia and Ukraine."

Putin and Trump summit in Budapest

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had expressed earlier Monday his willingness to participate in the upcoming summit between the American and Russian presidents, if he was invited to it.

The Kremlin had said that "He has no details" With regard to Zelensky’s participation in the meeting, while diplomatic efforts are trying to put an end to the Russian invasion that has been ongoing for three and a half years, and have faltered since the summit that brought together Trump and Putin in Alaska last August.

Last week, the two presidents announced that they would hold a second round of talks in Budapest, but it was not clear whether Zelensky, who did not participate, would participate in it. He is invited to the previous round.

Ukrainian criticism

Zelensky said in statements: "If I am invited to Budapest, if it is an invitation according to the formula that the three of us will meet, or shuttle diplomacy, that is, that President Trump will meet with Putin and that President Trump will meet with me, then according to one formula or another, we will agree."

The Ukrainian president criticized the option of holding the summit in Hungary, which has tense relations with Kiev, and is among the members of the European Union most sympathetic to the Kremlin.

In 1994, Moscow signed a memorandum in Budapest aimed at ensuring the security of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan in exchange for the three countries giving up nuclear weapons that remained in their possession from the era. Soviet.