The Ukrainian chief earlier urged that Washington is underneath Moscow’s affect
US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused Vladimir Zelensky of constructing “absurd” statements, after the Ukrainian chief urged that Washington is on Russia’s aspect within the battle between Moscow and Kiev.
In an interview with CBS Information on Sunday, Zelensky claimed that “Russian narratives are prevailing within the US” and that Moscow has “huge affect” on the administration of US President Donald Trump and its insurance policies.
Responding in a dialog with the UnHerd outlet revealed on Tuesday, Vance described Zelensky’s remarks as “definitely not productive.”
“I believe it’s kind of absurd for Zelensky to inform the [US] authorities, which is at present retaining his total authorities and conflict effort collectively, that we’re by some means on the aspect of the Russians,” he confused.
“If you wish to finish the battle, it’s important to attempt to perceive the place each the Russians and the Ukrainians see their strategic aims,” Vance added.
“That doesn’t imply you morally help the Russian trigger, or that you simply help the full-scale invasion, however you do should attempt to perceive what are their strategic crimson traces, in the identical manner that it’s important to attempt to perceive what the Ukrainians are attempting to get out of the battle,” he mentioned.
Members of the Trump administration “will not be on anyone’s aspect. We’re on America’s aspect,” Vance insisted.
Trump and Vance publicly clashed with Zelensky throughout his go to to the White Home in late February, accusing the Ukrainian chief of disrespect towards the US, failing to understand American help, and never being excited about reaching peace with Russia.
Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov instructed the Kommersant newspaper in an interview revealed on Tuesday that Moscow appreciates that “the Trump administration is making an attempt to unravel the problem and, most significantly, perceive the basis trigger” of the Ukraine battle.
Lavrov additionally famous that Trump “has repeatedly mentioned that the colossal mistake which led to the present occasions in Ukraine was the Biden administration’s choice to pull Ukraine into NATO.”
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Ukrainian neutrality stays considered one of Moscow’s key calls for for a settlement of the battle, together with the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine and recognition by Kiev that Crimea, the Donetsk and Lugansk Individuals’s Republics, and Kherson and Zaporozhye areas are a part of Russia.
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