Trump Management’s Peace Efforts Face Setback as Russia Walks Back Progress

Vice President JD vance has touted his boss’s “energetic diplomacy” with Russia, and insisted that the Trump administration would bring the three-year-long war between Ukraine and Russia to an end.

But as his remarks aired on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Russia’s top diplomat was making that prospect look unlikely – while walking back progress made between Donald Trump,vladimir Putin,Volodymyr Zelensky and a host of European leaders in a whirlwind series of meetings over the past two weeks.

Vance told NBC’s Kristen Welker, in a pre-taped interview, that both sides had signaled their openness to accepting “significant concessions” in recent days, and said that the president was open to increasing pressure if one side was seen as an obstacle to peace.

“This is the energetic diplomacy that’s going to bring this war to a close,” Vance said.”We sometimes feel like we’ve made grate progress with the Russians, and sometimes, as the president has said, he’s been very frustrated with the Russians. We’re going to keep on doing what we have to do to bring this thing to a close.”

he added that russia’s Vladimir Putin “made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in 3 years of this conflict.”