US Vice President JD Vance warned Wednesday that President Donald Trump is “growing incredibly impatient” with Moscow as Trump has hardened his stance over Russia.
Trump "doesn't feel like they're putting enough on the table to end the war. If Russians refuse to negotiate in good faith, I think it's going to be very, very bad for their country," JD Vance said in North Carolina. Earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York on Wednesday. In a statement issued after the 50-minute-meeting in which Lavrov refused to answer any questions, Rubio “reiterated President Trump’s call for the killing to stop and the need for Moscow to take meaningful steps toward a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war.”
According to the readout of the meeting published by the Kremlin, Lavrov "stressed the unacceptability of the schemes promoted by Kyiv and some European capitals aimed at prolonging the conflict.”
Trump on Tuesday made a surprise U-turn in his stance over Ukraine war, suggesting that Ukraine could retake its territories captured by Russia and described Russia as a “paper tiger” for its lack of progress on the frontline. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who had met with the US president earlier on that day, praised Trump for his shift in policy, but cautioned that NATO alone could not underwrite his country's security.
