Trump says canceled meeting with Putin in Budapest but hopes to meet in future

WASHINGTON. Oct 23 (Interfax) - U.S. President Donald Trump said that he has canceled the planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest but hopes to meet with him in the future.

"We cancelled the meeting with President Putin," Trump said during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the White House.

Trump said he felt like there was no sense in holding the meeting at this point, but "we'll do it in the future."

Trump also said he still believes that both Moscow and Kiev want to end the conflict in Ukraine.

"I think they want peace. I think they both want peace. At this point it's been, you know, it's almost four years," he said.

The Ukraine conflict settlement process is going pretty well, Trump said.

Trump also said he hopes that Moscow will pursue a "reasonable" approach toward the Ukraine conflict settlement after Washington imposed sanctions on Russian oil companies.

"Hopefully it'll push [Putin]. Hopefully he'll become reasonable," Trump told journalists in the White House.

"And hopefully Zelensky will be reasonable, too," he said.