Zelenskyy harshly criticized Vance for pro-Russian narratives

As Zelenskyy explained, during meetings between Ukraine and US representatives, Kyiv has to "make excuses for something you never did."

This is a reality shift that I don't want to play.

According to him, Vance has repeatedly stated that Russians are also supposedly suffering because of the war, dying, and that it is not a fact that Russia started the war.

We didn't attack, that's the first thing. It seems to me that Vice President Vance is somehow justifying Putin's actions. I tried to explain to him that there is no middle ground here, there is an aggressor and there is a victim. The Russians are the aggressor, we are the victim. Everyone understands that.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President of Ukraine

Zelenskyy noted that there were also signals that Putin had come to lands that allegedly are not Ukrainian because "Russians live there".

I am in Ukraine and I understand what happened, but he doesn't understand at all. He speaks in the same phrases that the Russians spoke on TV before.