According to him, the time has come either to both countries to agree to this proposal, or the United States to get out of this process. Vance noted that both Ukraine and Russia will have to abandon some territory that each of the parties currently controls.
“You will have to conduct some territorial exchange,” Vance said. He added that, although the border may not become the same front line as it is now, both sides need to lay down the weapon, freeze the situation and engage in “real construction of the best Russia and the best Ukraine.”
Context
On June 14, 2024, the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Putin has already announced a “real peaceful proposal”, in the case of the conditions of which Russia allegedly agrees to cease and start negotiations with Ukraine: Ukraine must withdraw troops From the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, completely giving the regions to Putin and agreeing with their status of supposedly Russian territories. In addition, Ukraine must recognize the occupation of Crimea, refuse to enter NATO and guarantee the protection of the rights of the Russian -speaking population. At the same time, the West must lift sanctions from the Russian Federation. Then Trump, who has not yet been elected president of the United States, called the requirements of the head of the Kremlin unacceptable.
The administration of the current US President Donald Trump about the need for territorial concessions has already been spoke repeatedly. In particular, in January 2025, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the “unrealistic” plan of Ukraine to throw the army of the aggressor country into the borders before the start of a full-scale war. The concessions to which “all parties” should go, said Trump's special representative on Ukraine Keith Kellogue. Rubio stated that on the negotiations between Ukraine and the United States, “Talking about territorial concessions” in Gidda (Saudi Arabia) in Gidda (Saudi Arabia). President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that Ukraine will not recognize any territories occupied by the Russian Federation.
On April 19, Bloomberg, citing sources, wrote that the United States is ready to recognize Russia's control over Ukrainian Crimea as part of a broader peace agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
On April 20, The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed Western officials, wrote that Trump expects a response from Kyiv to the recognition of Crimea Russian and refusal to join NATO.
On April 22, Financial Times wrote that Putin is supposedly ready to abandon full control over the four regions of Ukraine in exchange for stopping the front on the current line. On the same day, Putin’s representative Dmitry Peskov denied this information, calling the article ft fake.
