JD Vance warns that Russia and Ukraine will remain dissatisfied with Trump proposed deal
The vice president said a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine was unlikely to satisfy both sides.
Ahead of the looming meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said a negotiated deal between Russia and Ukraine was unlikely to satisfy both sides and that any peace agreement would likely leave Moscow and Kyiv "unhappy."
Vance acknowledged Sunday that both Russia and Ukraine would be "dissatisfied" with the peace deal being pushed by President Donald Trump, who is set to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Trump recently said Russia and Ukraine were close to a ceasefire agreement that could end the three-and-a-half-year conflict, possibly requiring Ukraine to surrender significant territory.
However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine cannot violate its constitution on territorial issues, adding: “The Ukrainians will not give up their land to the occupiers.”
Despite this, Vance insisted that the agreement “is not going to make anyone super happy. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians, probably at the end of the day, are going to be dissatisfied with it. But I don’t think they can sit down and have this negotiation without the leadership of Donald J. Trump.”
The vice president asserted that Washington “will find a negotiated agreement with which the Ukrainians and the Russians can live, where they can live in relative peace and where the killing stops.”
His comments come after it was confirmed last Friday that the first meeting between Putin and a US president since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022 will be next August 15 in Alaska, although logistical details are still pending.
It is "possible" that the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, will also attend the meeting, according to what the United States ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, expressed this Sunday in an interview with CNN, in which he clarified that the invitation depends on Trump and that "no decision has been made" so far.
The meeting in Alaska followed a visit to Moscow by White House peacekeeping envoy Steve Witkoff last Thursday, the day before Trump's ultimatum for Russia to take steps to end the war was set to expire.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Finland, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that "the path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine."