The two leaders planned to meet in Budapest was earlier put on hold after Moscow stuck to several demands, including that Ukraine must give more territory as a condition for a ceasefire.

The proposed meeting, scheduled for this month, was shelved after Moscow maintained its demands, notably that Ukraine surrender additional territory as a prerequisite for a ceasefire. Trump has backed Ukraine' s call for an immediate ceasefire on current lines.

By Yousef Saba and Gleb Bryanski RIYADH/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia that he expected the war in Ukraine to end within a year.

VLADIMIR Putin has been secretly pummelling Ukraine with a banned missile for months – forcing Donald Trump to start testing nuclear weapons again. Ukraine reports the cruise missile,

By holding nuclear drills and boasting about the successful test of a pioneering nuclear-powered cruise missile, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a message to President Donald Trump: Moscow wouldn’t be cowed into concessions on Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is now believed to be more dug in than ever, according to a recent intelligence assessment.

Russian soldiers have been forced to buy fuel for their vehicles from petrol stations after the army ran out of its own supplies. However, in a classic Catch-22, troops were unable to purchase fuel even at the petrol stations due to widespread shortages caused by Ukraine 's continual bombing of Russia 's oil refineries.

President Donald Trump says his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is on hold because he doesn’t want it to be a “waste of time.”