Vance urges EU fund Ukraine

Washington (dpa) — US Vice President JD Vance has reiterated that the United States plans to withdraw financially from supporting Ukraine in its defence against Russia.

“I think the President, and I certainly think that America, we’re done with the funding of the Ukraine war business. We want to bring about a peaceful settlement to this thing. We want to stop the killing,” Vance told Fox news in an interview recorded several days ago.

“But Americans, I think, are sick of continuing to send their money, their tax dollars, to this particular conflict,” Vance asserted.

“But if the Europeans want to step up and actually buy the weapons from American producers. We’re okay with that, but we’re not going to fund it ourselves anymore,” Vance asserted.

The interview was recorded before the official announcement of Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, but was only broadcast in full on Sunday.

Vance reiterated the Trump administration’s stance that the Europeans themselves are responsible for the conflict on their own back door.

Trump and Putin plan to negotiate a possible peace solution in Alaska on Friday to the war in Ukraine that has been ongoing for around three and a half years.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not been invited so far.