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

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68f1ce64e4b078755767aa38">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"b734e174-20bd-4f05-8aad-fa48dcb425c3"}).render("68f1ce64e4b078755767aa38");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>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.</p><p>“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.</p><p>Trump’s announcement followed a phone call with Putin and on the eve of his planned White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.</p><p>It is unclear whether Trump is aware of the 1994 <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/budapest-memorandum-25-between-past-and-future">Budapest Memorandum</a>, 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.</p&