The vice president said Putin had demanded Ukraine surrender territories that Moscow had failed to occupy or capture.
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.
Despite Russia’s overreach, Vance said the Trump administration anticipated that both sides of the conflict would initially set unrealistic goals with the hopes of achieving a more favorable outcome when real negotiations began.
“We knew that Russia would ask for too much because the Russian perception is that, on the ground, they’re winning,” Vance said.
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