US Vice President JD Vance has suggested that neither Ukraine nor Russia may be satisfied with the outcome of a US-brokered settlement of the war, but says talks are "worth the effort" even if they do not "work out".

Source: Vance in an interview with Fox News, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Vance admitted that, in his view, ending the war in Ukraine is far from simple.

"If you take where the current line of contact between Russia and Ukraine is, we're going to try to find some negotiated settlement that the Ukrainians and the Russians can live with – where they can live in relative peace, where the killing stops – it's not going to make anybody super happy," he said.

"Both the Russians and the Ukrainians, probably at the end of the day, are going to be unhappy with it, but I don’t think you can actually sit down and have those negotiations absent the leadership of Donald J. Trump," Vance added.

He also relayed Trump’s words after speaking to him that morning: "Maybe this works out, maybe it doesn't, but it’s worth the effort, it’s worth trying, and we are going to keep on using the diplomatic influence of the President of the United States to accomplish an end to this."

Background: 

• Vance previously said he does not believe a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin before the latter meets US President Donald Trump would be productive.
• The Trump-Putin meeting is scheduled to take place in Alaska on 15 August, amid media reports that Washington and Moscow are supposedly seeking an agreement to halt the war in Ukraine that could cement Russia’s occupation of part of its territory.

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