Russian leadership is seeking unrealistic concessions in exchange for initiating a cease-fire with Ukraine, according to Vice President JD Vance.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on May 7, Vance said that Moscow’s first proposals for beginning negotiations to end its war in Ukraine were non-starters.
“Certainly, the first peace offer that the Russians put on the table, our reaction was, ‘You’re asking for too much.’ But this is how negotiations unfold,” Vance said.
He said that during a May 9 interview with Fox News that Russian President Vladimir Putin had demanded that Ukraine surrender some territories that Russia has thus far failed to occupy or capture....
