The Trump-Putin summit was dropped after a preparatory call between Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made clear there would be little progress towards peace in Ukraine, and definitely no ceasefire as the White House demanded. “There is nothing true in these reports,” Peskov said, originally in Russian, state news agency TASS reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to submit proposals for a possible resumption of nuclear tests in response to President Donald Trump’s statements last month that appeared to suggest the U.