Russian presidential envoy for investment Kirill Dmitriev denied that the planned meeting in Budapest had been cancelled.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev has denied reports that plans for a summit between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Budapest have been scrapped.
Dmitriev commented after several US media outlets quoted an unnamed White House official as saying there were no plans for a Putin-Trump summit. “in the immediate future.” Some media outlets interpreted the comment to mean that the meeting had been canceled or postponed indefinitely.
“The media is twisting the ‘immediate future’ commentary to undermine the upcoming summit. Preparations continue.” Dmitriev wrote in X on Tuesday, responding to a Financial Times headline that read: “Trump and Putin cancel Budapest Ukraine summit”.
Dmitriev, who serves as head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund (RDIF), accompanied Putin during his rare in-person meeting with Trump in Alaska in August and also participated in the US-Russia meeting in Riyadh in February.
The leaders of the United States and Russia agreed during a phone call last week to meet in the Hungarian capital on an unspecified date. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he had not yet “I made a decision” about the event, adding that he did not want the summit to become “a lost time.”
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote in X that “The pro-war political elite and their media” were trying to derail the planned Putin-Trump summit, warning about “A wave of leaks, fake news and statements claiming that this will not happen.”
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