The Kremlin may have convinced itself that US President Donald Trump didn’t have the stomach to apply real pressure on Moscow to end the brutal conflict in Ukraine.

President Trump said last week that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Budapest, Hungary, though he did not say when.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has stated that the idea of holding a Russia-US summit in Budapest was an American initiative, but that attending it without preparation "would have been a mistake". Details: Putin said that both the meeting and the venue had been proposed by the US,

There are no plans for President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin to meet "in the immediate future," a White House official said on Tuesday.

The Polish foreign minister said he could not guarantee that Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane would not be forced to land.

Vladimir Putin responded to President Trump slapping sanctions on Russia's two biggest oil companies in a U.S. policy shift over the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hit out at the latest sanctions imposed by the U.S., calling Washington's move an “unfriendly act” that could backfire by spiking global oil prices.

The Russian despot has said in a chilling statement this evening that 'dialogue is always better than war' after Donald Trump hit the country with new sanctions