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US official Vance criticises Russia for its demands in Ukraine ceasefire talks

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Vice President JD Vance has stated that Russia is requesting concessions that are excessive in order to bring an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Vance expressed this viewpoint during a separate event, stating, "We believe they are requesting too much."

    1. One of this root causes, apart from Nato and creation of direct military threats to Russia just on our borders, another one is the rights of the national minorities in Ukraine.
    2. Marco Rubio expressed yesterday, I think, also the assessment that they had the American team now is getting a better understanding of the Russian position and of the root causes of this situation.
    1. I'm not happy about it … I'm not happy about it.
    2. It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently.
    1. Obviously, the United States is happy to participate in those conversations, but it's very important for the Russians and the Ukrainians to start talking to one another. We think that is the next big step that we would like to take.
    2. The Russians said, 'A 30-day ceasefire is not in our strategic interest,'
    3. And we've moved from ceasefire and more on what the long-term settlement looks like and tried to consistently advance the ball.
    4. We think it's probably impossible for us to mediate this entirely without at least some direct negotiation between the two.
    5. The first peace offer that the Russians put on the table, our reaction to it was, you're asking for too much — but this is how negotiations unfold.