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But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday dismissed the idea of halting the conflict at the current contact line. Moscow was only interested in "long-term, sustainable peace", Lavrov said, implying that freezing the front line would only amount to a temporary ceasefire.
Russia said the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, was still ongoing, despite Trump’s earlier announcement that the planned summit had been put on hold,
The US and Russian leader had been set to meet in Budapest but Moscow has rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire
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The Polish foreign minister said he could not guarantee that Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane would not be forced to land.
Trump wants Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war on the current battlelines, with Moscow holding a huge swathe of eastern Ukraine.
U.S. president wants a swift end to the conflict, but both sides are digging in over the region in Ukraine’s east.
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Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev floated the tunnel idea late on Thursday after Putin spoke to Trump by phone and agreed to meet in Budapest.
A planned summit between the United States and Russia in Hungary has apparently been put on hold. A White House official on Tuesday told NHK there are no plans to hold such a meeting "in the immediate future.