Russian presidential investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev has denied that the planned meeting in Budapest has been scrapped.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special economic envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, has denied reports that the planned summit between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Budapest has been canceled. Dmitriev criticized Western media for twisting comments about the meeting being scheduled for the ‘immediate future’ and emphasized that preparations continue. The leaders of the US and Russia agreed during a phone, call last week to meet in the Hungarian capital on an unspecified date. Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday that he had not yet ‘made a determination’ regarding the event, adding that he did not want the summit to become ‘a wasted time.’ Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote on X that ‘the pro-war political elite and their media’ were attempting to derail the planned Putin-Trump summit, warning of ‘a wave of leaks, fake news, and statements claiming that it won’t happen.’
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 took part in the US-Russia meeting in Riyadh in February.
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Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has expressed concerns that the summit could be derailed by pro-war political elites and their media outlets, warning of a wave of leaks, fake news, and statements claiming the event won’t happen. The leaders of the US and Russia agreed during a phone call last week to meet in the Hungarian capital on an unspecified date. Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday that he had not yet ‘made a determination’ regarding the event, adding that he did not want the summit to become ‘a wasted time.’