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vice-president Jd vance Thursday, would have warned that the United States would not exclude difficult sanctions or even a potential military action against Russia if President Vladimir Putin had not come to the negotiation table on an agreement that would guarantee peace for the Ukraine.
Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, which was the first to report on Vance’s comments, the vice-president declared the shipment American troops In Ukraine was “on the table” if Russia has not negotiated in good faith.
Vance said there was “economic tools leverage [and] There are, of course, leverage military tools “that the United States could use against Putin.
“I think there is an agreement that will get out of it that will shock a lot of people,” said Vance to the newspaper.
The American vice-president JD Vance visits the commemorative site of the Dachau concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, February 13, 2025. (Reuters / Leah Millis)
Vance’s comments came one day before the vice-president met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Munich. The discussions will be closely monitored by European leaders to assess where President Trump is held at the end of the Russian-Ukraine war, which is approaching three years.
President Trump had what he described as a “long” telephone call with Putin on Wednesday, who understood the Russian chief agreeing to “immediately” start with negotiations during the war in Ukraine.
Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said that the two leaders “had agreed to work together, very closely”.
“We have also accepted that our respective teams immediately start negotiations, and we will start by calling President Zelenskyy, from Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something I will do at the moment. I asked the secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Steve Witkoff’s special ambassador, to carry out negotiations which, I will have a success.
President Donald Trump (center), Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskyy (left) and Russian president Vladimir Putin (right). (Alessandro Bremec / Nurphoto via Getty Images | Contributor / Getty Images | Scott Olson / Getty Images)
Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio should lead the American delegation to the Munich Security Conference where the future of Ukraine will be the best element of the agenda.
Trump was vague about his specific intentions – apart from suggesting that an agreement will probably lead to Ukraine’s constraint to give up the territory that Russia has grasped since its annex in 2014.
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“Ukraine war is due to end,” Trump told journalists on Thursday. “Young people have been killed at levels that no one has seen since the Second World War. And it is a ridiculous war.”
Trump and the American defense secretary Pete Hegseth wiped out the hopes of Ukraine this week to be part of NATO, which, according to the Alliance, said that less than a year ago, was “irreversible” or recover its territory captured by Russia, which currently occupies almost 20%, including Crimea.
The Secretary in the United States for Defense Pete Hegseth, on the left, walks with British Secretary for Defense John Healey before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters In Brussels, Wednesday, February 12. (Johanna Geron / Pool Photo via AP)
“I see no way that a country in Russian position could allow them to join NATO,” Trump said on Thursday. “I don’t see that happening.”
When asked what he thought that Russia should abandon to conclude an agreement, he noted that talks have not yet started and that “maybe Russia will abandon a lot, perhaps that They won’t do it. “
At the NATO headquarters, Hegseth reiterated Thursday that “the simple fact of reporting realism as borders will not be returned to what everyone would like them to be in 2014 is not a concession to Vladimir Putin. “” He said it was recognition of realities on the ground.
He added, however, that neither Russia nor Ukraine will “obtain everything they want” and stressed that “any negotiation that was made with the two”.
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Fox News Digital contacted the White House for a response to the comments of Vance.
Emma Colton of Fox News Digital and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
