Sergey Lavrov pleased with Trump VP nominee Vance’s comments on Ukraine

– He is a supporter of peace, he is a supporter of stopping aid (Ukraine – Editor) We can only be happy about this, because this is what we need – stop sending weapons to Ukraine, and then the war will end – Lavrov told reporters at a press conference at the Ukrainian headquarters United Nations in New York.

– The head of Russian diplomacy continued that if any American leader elected by American citizens is willing to engage in a fair dialogue full of respect for both sides, we will be ready to cooperate with that leader.

Russia Attacked Ukraine 10 years ago and occupied Crimea and parts of it Donbassand in February 2022 launched a full-scale invasion that is now occupying a larger area of ​​its neighbor. Moscow is also responsible for the death and maiming of thousands of Ukrainians.

Lavrov also said on Wednesday that despite the severe sanctions imposed by the United States on Moscow, dialogue continued under the Trump administration. – Under Trump, more and more sanctions were imposed, economic sanctions, diplomatic sanctions, but at that time there was a dialogue between us and Washington at the highest level. There is no such dialogue at the moment, he said.

39-year-old Ohio Senator JD Vance Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate. Vance is considered a representative of the populist and isolationist wing of the Republican Party.

As Politico points out, much of Europe is already concerned about the possibility of Trump’s re-election and that the United States would end aid to Ukraine if he wins. election“Trump then chose Vance as his nominee (for vice president – ed.)” – the site noted, reminding the senator that he “strongly opposed allocating more funds to help Ukraine and decried what he saw as Europe’s over-dependence on the United States” when it comes to military investments.

Reuters also wrote that the United States’ European allies “are widely concerned” about Vance’s selection as a vice presidential candidate. The agency also recalled that Trump expressed concerns about the Ukraine aid package passed by Congress in April, but unlike Vance, he did not explicitly oppose it.

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The Kyiv Independent recalled that four days before the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, Vance said in an interview with the Real Voice of America: “Honestly, I don’t really care what happens in Ukraine.”Two days before the war broke out, he issued a statement on social media saying that the “Russian-Ukrainian border dispute has nothing to do with our national security” and that the “idiot leader’s” obsession with Ukraine “serves nothing in the United States except to distract us from the real problems.”

When Russia has begun to Ukraine WarVance has since spoken out against U.S. aid to Kiev. On Monday, in his first interview since Trump selected him as his vice presidential candidate, Vance says Ukraine war must end soonso that the United States can focus on its real problems, which are China. He also hinted that a Biden administration could lead to a nuclear war. – We spent $200 billion. What is the goal? What do we want to achieve? Is there a risk of escalation to a nuclear war? Because if we have fools making foreign policy, this situation exists, he said.

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In February, during the Munich Security Conference, Vance told Politico that the United States “simply does not have the production capacity to support a war in Eastern Europe indefinitely.” – How long will it last? How much will it cost? And importantly, how will we produce the weapons needed to support the Ukrainians? – he asked.

Trump’s US vice presidential candidate has also repeatedly stated that Ukraine may have to hand over some of its territory to Russia to end the war. – In an interview with reporters in December 2023, he said that almost every war ends in this way: people negotiate and both sides give up what they don’t want to give up. He said on a CNN program that “accepting that Ukraine must hand over some of its territory to Russia” would be in the best interests of the United States.

When asked about this view in a February interview with Politico, he reiterated that “any peace deal would require significant territorial concessions from Ukraine” and that a peace deal “is the only way to end the conflict.”

Fakty “TVN” and TVN24 journalists Marcin Wrona and Michał Sznajder commented on JD Vance’s attitude in the Wednesday edition of “Fakty po Faktach”.

– I’m curious what JD Vance will say today (Wednesday in the US, after midnight Thursday in Poland – ed.). Werner, who was at the Republican convention in Milwaukee, said this guy will not only be speaking at the Republican National Convention for the first time in his life, but will also be attending any convention for the first time in his life.

He noted that the politician “has virtually no experience in politics and holding public office”. – He was just elected to the US Senate not so long ago. That’s it. He is a lawyer, graduated from Yale, yes, he has business experience, but not much political experience – commented the TVN “Fakty” reporter.

– I’m curious what he’s going to say today because the third day of the Republican National Convention is a day focused on international affairs. These are extremely important and significant things for us. These phrases come from JD Vance or Donald Trump This could be a cause for concern, Werner stressed.

Michał Sznajder said that JD Vance “is a man who says that for the sake of the children, a marriage should not break up even if there is violence.” “This is a man who says that single women who have cats instead of children suffer for their bad life choices and want the whole of America to suffer,” – this is a man who praises Orban – he added.

– I agree that the Democrats are in trouble, but at some point, when the other side starts thinking about what JD Vance represents, when Donald Trump loses this idea of ​​being the great unifier after he was shot, and he maybe comes back to offend somebody, maybe lie again, what will happen again? We will have a situation where the public’s attention will be focused again on the ideas of Donald Trump, he said.