According to him, he and the American president Donald Trump had several good conversations with the head of the Ukrainian state Vladimir Zelensky.
Vance assured that the United States will continue to work for the sake of peace.
“I think we are quite agreed on this issue with the President of Zelensky, although we have some disagreements. Of course, we want to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine. We do not want Russia to capture the whole country,” the US Vice-President noted. “We also want the murders to stop, and we believe that the war has reached a point when the Russians, continuing to fight, will actually achieve nothing, and Ukrainians are not nothing either. achieve “.
According to Wance, now “it is best for everyone, including for the United States, to stop murders and lead everything to peaceful settlement.”
Context
On August 18, in Washington, a meeting of Trump and European leaders was held, including was Zelensky. They talked about security guarantees and the upcoming meeting of Zelensky with an illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as their trilateral meeting with Trump. On the same day, the US president called Putin on the phone, and later stated that He began the organization of the meeting between him and Zelensky. However, the Kremlin began to put forward conditions.
The White House was repeated on August 19 that Putin agreed to a bilateral meeting, but after that the Russian Foreign Ministry once again said that negotiations were at the highest level “You need to carefully prepare.”
On August 25, Trump threatened that “very serious consequences” may occur if Russia does not sit at the negotiating table, and promised to “intervene” if there is no progress in two weeks.
World media suggest that Putin will delay, dodge or refuse negotiations with Zelensky and Trump.
