Vice President Vance said Russia must “wake up and accept reality” in its ongoing war against Ukraine.
“We want peace here,” Vance said Sunday on Fox News. “We have been actively pursuing peace from the very beginning of the administration, but the Russians have got to wake up and accept reality here.”
Earlier this week, President Trump said that Ukraine could win the war and referred to Russia as a “paper tiger.”
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Tuesday.
The president met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the day. He has previously suggested that Ukraine would have to accept territorial concessions as part of a peace agreement.
Russia currently occupies all of Luhansk and Crimea — the latter of which it annexed in 2014, and parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
