Vice President JD Vance responded to the Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zensky for insinuating that he and the Trump administration elements sympathize with the Russian narratives about the bloody war.
In a CBS interview “60 minutes” that was broadcast on Sunday, Zensky, 47, reported the infamous oval office of February 28 with President Trump and Vance, 40, and reflected that he felt that the VEEP was “justifying somehow somehow [Russian tyrant Vladimir] Putin’s actions, “what triggered him.
“I think it’s absurd to Zensky tell [American] The Government, which currently keeps all its government and its war effort together, that we are somehow on the side of the Russians, ”Vance told the British conservative exit to Unherd in an interview published on Tuesday.
Vance added that Zensky’s rhetoric was “certainly not productive.”
Trump, 78, has been in a crusade to end the brutal war that Russia is moving against its neighbor.
In a strong deviation from the Biden administration policies, which firmly supported Ukraine, Trump has tried to position himself as a third party mediator. In doing so, Trump has criticized Ukraine and denounced, billionaire fits military aid packages to the ally devastated by war.
Vance has a long leg one of the most open defenders of this approach. He has also publicly argued that Ukraine should give territory to end the conflict, bothering Zensky.
“I have also tried to apply the strategic recognition that if you want to finish the conflict, you must try to understand where both Russians and Ukrainians see their strategic objectives, Vance explained to UNHERD.
“That does not mean that you morally support the Russian cause, or that you support the large -scale invasion, but you have to try to understand what its strategic red lines are, in the same way that you have to try to leave the Ukrainians are fine.” “
In February, Zensky visited the White House to discuss the effort of the Trump administration to end the war and a mineral rights agreement.
The tensions quickly exploded after Vance emphasized the need for diplomacy, which led Zensky to rebuild all the agreements with Ukraine that Putin had broken over the years. Vance rebuked him at that time not to say “thanks”, and Trump warned that he was playing with “World War II.”
Since then, tensions have defrosted between the Trump and Ukraine administration. However, Zensky reiterated his Conerns about the foreign policy of the United States in the “60 minutes” interview on Sunday.
“I think, unfortunately, Russian narratives prevail in the United States. How is it possible to witness our losses and our suffering, understand what the Russians are doing and continue to believe that they are not the aggressors, this did did did did?” Zensky lamented.
Later, Trump was enraged against “60 minutes” about that segment and another in Greenland.
“That is a war that the leg should never start, and Biden could stop it, and Zensky could have stopped it, and Putin should never start,” Trump told journalists on Monday.
“Everyone is to blame.”
Zensky also raised his sacrifice for Trump to visit Ukraine.
The interview was broadcast shortly after multiple Russian strikes killed 34 Ukrainians and wounded another 117 on Palm Sunday in the eastern city of Sumy. The special envoy Steve Witkoff had with Putin in Russia on Friday in St. Petersburg before the attack.
Last month, both Russia and Ukraine agreed to a high limited fire in the attacks against energy infrastructure. Trump’s team tried to negotiate a complete stop to end the war.
Russia rejected it and is looking for total control of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, which is currently missing.
In addition to his skepticism about the pronounced military aid to Ukraine, Vance has also proudly criticized Europe, arguing that “it is not good for Europe to be the permanent safety vassale of the United States.”
“I don’t think Europe is independent for the United States, it is good for the United States,” he argued to Unherd.
“I think many European nations were right about our Iraq invasion,” he added. “And, frankly, if the Europeans had been a bit more independent and a little more willing to stand up, then perhaps we could save the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the invasion of Iraq directed by the United States.”
