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MOSCOW \u2014 Just hours after President Donald Trump said peace talks with Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin<\/a> were on hold to avoid wasting his own time, the Kremlin launched intense strikes on Ukraine<\/a> that killed more than a dozen people, including someone at a kindergarten.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> said the attacks were Russia\u2019s “spit in the face” of peace and showed the need to provide his country with long-range missiles. The Kremlin said Wednesday that neither Putin nor Trump wanted to waste time \u2014 but cautioned that any meeting would require further \u201cpreparation.\u201d
Trump’s latest peace push hit a roadblock during a call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov<\/a>, according to senior figures on both sides.
Lavrov became “exercised” during the call, a Trump administration official told NBC News. He reiterated Russia’s refusal to agree to an immediate ceasefire before talks begin, a key demand of Kyiv and Europe that the United States has backed.
\u201cI don\u2019t want to have a wasted meeting; I don\u2019t want to have a waste of time,\u201d Trump told reporters Tuesday, confirming earlier reports that the summit with Putin slated for the Hungarian capital of Budapest would be shelved. He declined to give details about how the talks broke down, saying he would \u201csee what happens\u201d as events unfolded.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded Wednesday that neither Trump nor Putin “wants to waste time.” He told reporters that these were “two presidents who are accustomed to working effectively and efficiently, but effectiveness always requires preparation.”
Ukraine says it is willing to agree to an immediate ceasefire along the current battle lines \u2014 despite concerns that would allow Russia to regroup and attack again. But Putin has not shifted from the hard-line demands underpinning his war.
The timing of a ceasefire “is the basic difference which is existing now between Russia and the United States,\u201d Andrei Fedorov, former deputy foreign minister of Russia, told NBC News in an interview in Moscow on Wednesday.
It was during the Rubio-Lavrov call that \u201cthe conflict arose,\u201d Fedorov said. Rubio said “he did not want to waste his time and president\u2019s time if Russia was not prepared to discuss a ceasefire along the current front line,” Fedorov said.
Whereas “Lavrov indicated that if the U.S. would not adhere to the Alaska agreement there would be no further talks,” he added, referring to the Trump-Putin meeting in August.
Despite this, the would-be host of the Trump-Putin summit said it could still happen.
Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/a>, Hungary\u2019s prime minister who is a longtime ally of Trump\u2019s and has warm relations with Putin, said that his ambassador in Washington was still working on the meeting.
\u201cPreparations for the peace summit continue,\u201d Orb\u00e1n wrote on Facebook. \u201cThe date is still uncertain. When the time comes, we will organize it.\u201d
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also told state media that preparations for the summit were continuing.
Though Trump has claimed victories in helping calm other global conflicts, Ukraine \u2014 a war he once said he could solve in 24 hours \u2014 has so far proved more difficult. He has variously sought to strong-arm Zelenskyy and Putin with few tangible results.
Ukraine and its supporters point to Putin’s repeated attacks on Ukrainian civilians as evidence that he is not interested in peace, and merely wants to use the negotiations to buy time for his military assault on his neighbor.
Tuesday night brought the latest barrage, more than 400 drones and 20-plus missiles, around 350 of which were shot down, Ukraine’s air force command said. In all, at least 13 people were killed over the past 24 hours, according to officials early Wednesday.
Among the targets was a kindergarten in the eastern city of Kharkiv, killing at least one person and injuring seven others, Zelenskyy said.
\u201cThere is no justification for a drone strike on a kindergarten, nor can there ever be,\u201d he said in a post. \u201cClearly, Russia is growing more brazen. These strikes are Russia\u2019s spit in the face to everyone who insists on a peaceful resolution.\u201d
The Russian Defense Ministry said it had targeted sites supporting “the operation of Ukraine\u2019s military-industrial complex” with “high-precision long-range weapons.”
Later Wednesday, Putin oversaw a previously planned test of Russia’s nuclear forces, including the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from northern Russia and a ballistic missile from a submarine in the Barents Sea, which sits between Russia and Scandinavia.
Zelenskyy called on Western allies to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles<\/a> capable of striking deeper into Russia, saying that Moscow had been emboldened to up its attacks by Kyiv\u2019s current lack of such capabilities.
\u201cRussia continues to do everything to weasel out of diplomacy,\u201d he said in his nightly address. \u201cThe greater Ukraine\u2019s long-range reach, the greater Russia\u2019s willingness to end the war.\u201d
Earlier Tuesday, Ukraine announced that it had carried out a \u201cmassive combined missile and air strike\u201d on Russia\u2019s Bryansk chemical plant, some 60 miles across the border.
It was the latest attack in a weekslong campaign from Kyiv aimed at Putin’s war machine and the fragile Russian economy.
Keir Simmons and Natasha Lebedeva reported from Moscow, Daryna Mayer from Kyiv and Alexander Smith from London.<\/em>
Keir Simmons is chief international correspondent for NBC News, based in Dubai.
Natasha Lebedeva is NBC’s Senior Director for International Affairs, based in Washington.
Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for\u00a0NBC News Digital based in London.
Daryna Mayer is an NBC News producer and reporter based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
© 2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n

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