Russia Responds to Stories Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin Can Journey on Similar Airplane

The spokesperson for President Vladimir Putin dismissed media reviews on the chance that the Russian chief may journey to the proposed Budapest summit on the identical aircraft as U.S. President Donald Trump.

Putin faces a logistical drawback in touring to the Trump assembly in Hungary, the date and finer particulars of that are but to be confirmed, to debate ending the Russian warfare in Ukraine.

European Union (EU) airspace is closed to Russian plane, and the Kremlin can have severe safety considerations about its president flying over hostile nations. A direct route would imply touring to Hungary over Poland, each EU members and NATO allies. While Hungary has heat relations with Moscow, Poland—which neighbors war-torn Ukraine—doesn’t.

“I regard it as a fantastical version,” Kremlin official Dmitry Peskov instructed journalists, initially in Russian, responding to a query concerning the hypothesis within the media, state information company TASS reported.

Putin Faces Polish Arrest

The Polish overseas minister warned that Putin’s aircraft may very well be pressured to land on Poland’s territory—and the Russian chief arrested—if it traveled by means of its airspace for the Trump assembly in Hungary.

“I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won’t order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand the suspect to the court in The Hague,” Radosław Sikorski instructed Polish broadcaster Radio Rodzina on Tuesday, in accordance with nationwide media.

The Netherlands-based International Criminal Court in 2023 issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing him of illegally deporting a whole lot of youngsters from Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

Instead, Putin faces flying an extended, circuitous route through Turkey to Hungary.

Trump-Putin Meeting in Works as Ukraine War Continues

It will not be clear when Trump and Putin will meet in Budapest. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are in negotiations to put the groundwork for a profitable assembly between their respective leaders.

Trump spoke to Putin final Thursday, and the 2 agreed to the assembly, a follow-up to the Alaska summit in August. Trump is attempting to finish Russia’s ongoing warfare in Ukraine, however has not but succeeded following a number of months of diplomacy.

Ukraine and its European allies need Trump to use larger stress on Putin to finish the warfare by strengthening Ukrainian forces with extra and higher firepower, and placing more durable sanctions on Russia and its strategic companions, significantly China. They say Putin solely responds to laborious energy, not diplomacy.

Zelensky Wants Tomahawks

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met with Trump on the White House on Friday after the Putin name, hoping to safe a provide of long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles from the U.S. to make use of towards Russia. But Trump has not but agreed to that request, involved concerning the escalation of the warfare that such a transfer would entail.

Instead, Trump emerged from the assembly telling Zelensky and Putin to pause the combating alongside the present entrance strains. While Ukraine has mentioned it needs a ceasefire, Russia has repeatedly rejected the thought.

Trump, in a publish on his Truth Social platform, referred to as the assembly with Zelensky “very interesting, and cordial, but I told him, as I likewise strongly suggested to President Putin, that it is time to stop the killing, and make a DEAL!”

“Enough blood has been shed, with property lines being defined by War and Guts,” Trump continued. “They should stop where they are. Let both claim Victory, let History decide! No more shooting, no more Death, no more vast and unsustainable sums of money spent.”

Russia says it invaded Ukraine to halt Kyiv’s ambitions to affix the U.S.-led NATO alliance, which Moscow regards as a significant safety menace, and to guard ethnic Russians from what it claims is persecution by the authorities. But Ukraine says Russia is waging an imperial warfare of conquest to eradicate Ukrainian sovereignty and identification, and illegally deliver it underneath Kremlin management.

Updated, 10/21/2025, 7:30 a.m.: This article was up to date with extra data.