Politics Vance: Russia has made "significant concessions"
According to US Vice President JD Vance, Russia has made "significant concessions" to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
25.08.2025, 01:43
25.08.2025, 01:44
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"They were actually willing to be flexible on some of their core demands. They've talked about what it would take to end the war," Vance said in an interview on NBC. Russia had agreed "that Ukraine would retain its territorial integrity after the war. They have realized that they cannot install a puppet regime in Kiev."
Russia launched its war of aggression against the neighboring country on February 24, 2022. Vance now said he thought the Russians had made "significant concessions to Trump for the first time in three and a half years of this conflict".
"There will be no ground troops in Ukraine"
Vance reiterated that the USA would not send troops to enforce a peace agreement. "The president has been very clear. There will be no ground troops in Ukraine." But the US would continue to play an active role in making sure the Ukrainians had the security guarantees and confidence they needed to end the war from their side - and that the Russians felt they could end the war from their side.
However, hopes of an imminent meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, as promised by US President Donald Trump, have largely evaporated following statements from Moscow. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had stated that such a meeting would have to be well prepared and repeated familiar demands that were more reminiscent of conditions for Ukraine's capitulation than a genuine peace offer.
The direct negotiations between Kiev and Moscow at a lower level, which have been ongoing since May, have made little progress so far.
Following the ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine, Trump said on Friday that a peace agreement between the two countries could still take weeks. He said he thought the next two weeks would show which direction it would take.
