Vance Issues Ultimatum To Russia, Ukraine On Peace Negotiations

Vice President JD Vance told reporters successful India that nan U.S. had offered Russia and Ukraine "a very definitive proposal" to extremity nan warfare that has been ongoing for complete 3 years: make a woody aliases consequence nan U.S. stepping away.

"We've issued a very definitive connection to some nan Russians and Ukrainians, and it's clip for them to either opportunity yes aliases for nan U.S. to locomotion distant from this process. We've engaged successful an bonzer magnitude of diplomacy, of on-the-ground work," Vance told reporters.

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The vice president besides said that "the only measurement to really extremity nan sidesplitting is for nan armies to some put down their weapons, to frost this point and to get connected pinch nan business of really building a amended Russia and a amended Ukraine."

Vice President JD Vance speaks arsenic he departs Agra, en way to Jaipur, India, aft visiting nan Taj Mahal, April 23, 2025. (Kenny Holston/Pool via Reuters)

Vance’s comments travel aft Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he would not beryllium attending talks successful London aimed astatine facilitating a ceasefire. On Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters that Rubio would not beryllium attending nan talks owed to "logistical issues." 

The caput later wrote successful a station connected X that he was readying connected "following up aft nan ongoing discussions successful London and rescheduling my travel to nan UK successful nan coming months."

During Tuesday’s briefing, Bruce besides said Gen. Keith Kellogg, typical statesmanlike envoy for Ukraine, would correspond nan U.S. astatine nan talks successful London.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio astatine nan State Department connected Feb. 10, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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On Friday, Rubio suggested that nan U.S. mightiness locomotion distant from negotiations to extremity nan warfare wrong "a matter of days," contempt President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to unafraid a ceasefire deal. Trump later told nan property that Rubio was "right successful saying that we want to spot it end."

"Think astir it, each time a batch of group are being killed arsenic we talk about, you know, arsenic they play games, truthful we’re not gonna return that," Trump told reporters. He besides said he thinks nan U.S. has a "good chance" of bringing bid to Ukraine and Russia.

President Donald Trump takes a mobility from a personnel of nan media during a gathering pinch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successful nan Oval Office of nan White House connected April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Security experts, however, are not arsenic assured that bid is connected nan horizon, arsenic immoderate pass that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want peace.

Trump seems to beryllium hoping to entice Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to extremity nan fighting pinch talk of really some countries could use from doing business pinch nan U.S. aft nan warfare ends. He made nan remark aft Ukraine and Russia’s impermanent Easter ceasefire ended. Both Ukraine and Russia accused each different of violating nan ceasefire.

Fox News' Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.