WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will speak to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday, a White House official said, a day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy planned to visit the White House to seek more support in the war with Russia.

There are no plans for President Trump to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin “in the immediate future,” a White House official told The Hill, following a call between two of their top envoys.

President Trump spoke with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday ahead of his face-to-face meeting with Zelenskyy, and the two agreed to meet in Budapest.

President Donald Trump canceled his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, due to insufficient progress toward peace negotiations, the White House said.

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing in June, in an exchange with Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth adamantly refused to acknowledge Vladimir Putin's Russia as an adversary.

A White House official told The Independent there are “no plans” for a sit-down between Trump and Putin “in the immediate future” because Secretary of State Marco Rubio had conducted a “productive call” with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov which made an in-person meeting between the two top diplomats “not necessary.”

President Donald Trump does not plan to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the immediate future, a White House official tells Fox News Digital.

President Trump will speak Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a White House official confirmed to The Hill, one day before Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr

President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday. The meeting between the two leaders comes after Trump's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin discussing the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Russia has conducted a successful test of a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, declaring that the new weapon can’t be intercepted. Putin’s statement,