US Vice President JD Vance said the talks [to end the war in Ukraine] are deadlocked and threatened that the US may withdraw from them, Sky News reported.
His comments came ahead of a planned phone call between US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. J.D. Vance said he expects Trump to ask Putin if he is serious about ceasefire talks.
If Russia is not “willing to engage“, then “ultimately the United States will have to say this is not our war“, said US Vice President J.D. Vance.
He added that Vladimir Putin, who is supposed to talk to Donald Trump, “doesn't seem to know“ how to get out of the war. “We realize there is a certain impasse here”, J.D. Vance told reporters.
US President Donald Trump will speak by phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at 5:00 p.m. (Moscow and Bulgarian time) today, and after the phone call he will call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Reuters reported. This was officially announced by the White House.
White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said: “I think I can sum up the president's foreign policy agenda in two words - America first. And that means putting the American people and the American taxpayers first. And that's why the president is acting as quickly as possible and working overtime to end these conflicts (in Gaza and Ukraine)”.
Amid the phone call between Putin and Trump, the Russian army continues to attack Ukraine. One person was killed and five were wounded in Russian shelling of the northern Donetsk region, the “Ukrinform“ agency reported.