Trump To Hold Putin Summit In Budapest – Where Russia Promised Not To Invade Ukraine

President Donald Trump is touting another meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin about his country’s invasion of Ukraine, this time in Budapest, Hungary — the city where Russia promised not to invade Ukraine three decades ago if it gave up its nuclear weapons.“We’re going to be meeting in Hungary. Viktor Orbán is going to be hosting,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, referring to his friend, the country’s authoritarian president.Trump’s announcement followed a phone call with Putin and on the eve of his planned White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.It is unclear whether Trump is aware of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Russia pledged to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Putin first violated that promise in 2014 when he invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and again in 2022 with his full-scale invasion.Trump met Putin in Alaska in August, which ended without the ceasefire Trump had said Putin needed to agree to. It is unclear why Budapest was chosen as the location for the next meeting.In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”“I’m sure Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care,” said Jim Townsend, who has worked at both the Pentagon and NATO and is now an analyst with the Center for a New American Security. “Trump likes Orban and probably thinks he’s doing him a solid. Also, Putin is an Orban friend. Most of the world would not consider Budapest neutral ground for such a meeting but I guess Trump and Putin do.”President Donald Trump holds a photograph of himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska at the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. Jan Techau, a Berlin-based analyst for the Center for European Policy Analysis, said he did not know whether Trump would see any irony in holding such a meeting in Budapest.“The visit there serves him well on many fronts. He can demonstrate his absolute willingness to broker peace, he can support his friend Viktor and stick it to the rest of the Europeans in their own backyard, he can be both pro-Ukrainian and pro-Putin, he acknowledges the Central Europeans’ need for America’s presence and re-assurance, and he can once more show the ICC what he thinks of them.”The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Putin and other top Russian officials on charges of war crimes in Ukraine. While most European nations honor the ICC’s findings, the United States does not.Trump had initially praised Putin for his “genius” and “savvy” when he invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and then began blaming Zelenskyy for his country getting invaded and former President Joe Biden for allowing it to happen.In recent months, Trump has started to criticise Putin for his murderous attacks on civilians in near-nightly missile and drone assaults on residential areas. In recent weeks, Trump has said he is willing to sell US weapons to other NATO allies for them to give to Ukraine, including Tomahawk cruise missiles that would let Ukraine hit targets deep in Russia.On Thursday, Trump again expressed his inability to understand why Zelenskyy — whose citizens are getting slaughtered almost daily — and Putin — an accused war criminal — cannot get along.“I mean, we have a problem. They don’t get along too well, those two,” he said. “This is a ― this is a terrible relationship the two of them have, and it’s one of those things.”

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