United States Vice-President JD Vance expressed that US wants to secure a “lasting” peace between Russia and Ukraine. He had held a first meeting with Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss Donald Trump’s push for a deal with Moscow. The talks in Munich were seen as a key moment for Kyiv as it tries to keep Washington on its side after Trump stunned allies by announcing truce efforts with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Vance said, “We want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that’s going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road,” Vance said as the meeting wrapped up. He said that “good conversations” had been had with Zelenskyy about how they could reach that goal, and they would have more talks “in the days, weeks and months to come”.

Zelenskyy also hailed a “good conversation”, saying the encounter with Vance was “our first meeting, not last, I’m sure”. We are ready to move as quickly as possible towards a real and guaranteed peace,” Zelenskyy later wrote on X, adding that an envoy from Washington would visit Kyiv.

Ceasefire Talks

Trump rattled Ukraine and its European allies by agreeing to launch ceasefire talks in his first publicly announced call with Putin since returning to office. The dramatic thaw in relations sparked fears that Ukraine could be left out in the cold after nearly three years of battling Moscow’s invasion. “We will have (a) low, low chance to survive without (the) support of the United States,” Zelenskyy said in an interview. US officials have insisted that Zelenskyy will be involved in negotiations – and the Ukrainian leader said he would be prepared to sit down with Putin after agreeing a “common plan” with Trump.

Vance said ahead of the meeting that the United States was prepared to pressure Russia, adding that Europe should “of course” be at the table. But he also told Europe to “step up” bolstering of its own defence to allow Washington to focus on threats elsewhere in the world.

On the other hand, Putin tells Trump that ‘peace negotiations’ on Ukraine are possible in a first call. Trump also says Putin and Zelenskyy want peace; phone calls kicked off talks to end Ukraine war. Also, US pressures both Russia, Europe on Ukraine. Prior to this, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned home after concluding a successful meeting with newly elected US President Donald Trump. PM Modi is the fourth foreign leader to visit Trump in the weeks after the American leader’s inauguration as the 47th President of the US.

Apparently, it was a very positive meeting which proved to be a masterclass for other leaders around the world to know how to walk into a negotiation with President Trump. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi understood the assignment. It could’ve been bad. Despite trade friction, both sides walked away with deliverables on a potential trade deal, energy, military, etc.

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