"Ukrainians aren't winning the war". Vance

Ukraine will not win if the military conflict between Moscow and Kiev is not ended in the coming years, US Vice President J.D. Vance said.

There is a “strange idea” circulating in the media that if the fighting continues for a few more years, “the Russians will fall, the Ukrainians will get their territory back, and everything will be as it was before the war, but that is not the reality we live in,” Vance said.

The US vice president warned that if the military conflict continues, there is a threat of “the collapse of society.”

“If this continues for a few more years, millions of people could die, it could turn into a nuclear war,” Vance said, emphasizing that President Trump’s policy is to reach a settlement.

According to Vance, the Trump administration is constantly forcing both sides to return to the negotiating table and try to find a solution. Russia is offering its terms for a settlement, Ukraine is offering its terms, “and the job of diplomacy is to try to bring those two sides together,” the vice president said.

“The biggest progress is that we’ve gotten both sides to talk about what they need to do to end the war,” Vance said, adding that he is “more optimistic now than he was two weeks ago.”