United States Vice President JD Vance stated that Russia has made “vital concessions” working in the direction of a negotiated settlement in its battle with Ukraine, reported the information portal NBC Information on Sunday, 24 August 2025.
Vance highlighted that Russia has made these ‘concessions’ for the primary time in three and a half years of the continued Russia-Ukraine battle, which began in February 2022.
“I believe the Russians have made vital concessions to President Trump for the primary time in three and a half years of this battle,” JD Vance advised the information portal on the ‘Meet the Press with Kristen Welker’ information present on Sunday.
Vance additionally claimed that Russia has acknowledged that there will probably be some ‘safety assure’ for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
“They’ve recognised that they are not going to have the ability to set up a puppet regime in Kyiv. That was, in fact, a serious demand initially. And importantly, they’ve acknowledged that there’s going to be some safety assure to the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” stated Vance on the interview with the information portal.
Final week, Donald Trump renewed a risk to impose extra sanctions on Russia if there was no progress towards a peaceable settlement cope with Ukraine within the subsequent two weeks, in keeping with a Reuters report.
“He is tried to make it clear that Russia may be re-invited into the world economic system in the event that they cease the killing, however they are going to proceed to be remoted if they do not cease the killing,” Vance stated on Sunday.
Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace deal goal
JD Vance’s remark comes practically one week after US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on the White Home, and Trump’s assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
The assembly between Trump, Zelensky and different main European leaders on 18 August 2025 got here to a conclusion, trying ahead to quickly organising a ‘three-party’ assembly for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to work issues out on a possible ‘peace deal.’
Trump additionally introduced on the assembly that he would additionally doubtlessly be there on the assembly together with President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Vladimir Putin to barter the peace deal.
“I confirmed — and all European leaders supported me — that we’re prepared for a bilateral assembly with Putin,” Zelensky stated after the assembly, in keeping with a Ukrainian media report after the assembly. Nonetheless, the nations haven’t finalised a deal thus far, as folks world wide await an finish to the Russia-Ukraine battle.
