There is big gulf between Russia and Ukraine's positions – US Vice President
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The administration of US President Donald Trump will concentrate on foreign policy in the coming months. Diplomacy should narrow a "big gulf" between the positions of Russia and Ukraine, said US Vice President JD Vance in an interview with Fox News.
Vance said Trump seeks a "durable solution where you don’t have 5,000 people dying every single week on both sides of that conflict."
Proposals from both sides
Asked about the current stage of negotiations, Vance stated that a necessary first step in resolving the Russia-Ukraine war is for both sides to make peace proposals.
"And that's actually happened. The Ukrainians have said, ‘This is what we want.’ The Russians have said, ‘This is what we want,'" the Vice President said.
Now, he said, the task of diplomacy is "to try to sort of bring these two sides closer together."
"Because there's a very big gulf between what the Russians want and what the Ukrainians want."
Vance also claimed that even European partners, even if they don’t publicly agree with the President, acknowledge that he managed to get both sides to talk.
According to him, prior to this, neither side was engaging in dialogue - “not with each other, and not with anyone else. There was just fighting."
"We've got the peace proposal out there and issued, and we're going to work very hard over the next 100 days to try to bring these guys together," he added.
According to a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll in March 2025, only 24% of Ukrainians view the US as an ally seeking a fair peace for Ukraine.
Meanwhile, an Info Sapiens poll in mid-April showed that just 7.4% of Ukrainians trust Trump, while 89% said they do not trust him.
