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RUSSIA has abandoned its ambitions to control Ukraine after the war, according to JD Vance – who counts it as a key concession win.

The US Vice-President remains optimistic that Trump will negotiate an end to the conflict, as reports indicate that America has been preventing Ukraine from launching long-range missiles into Russia.

A 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer firing.
JD Vance is confident that the US will still be able to silence the guns through diplomacyCredit: Reuters
Burning car amid debris from Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv.
A car damaged during a Russian missile and drone strikeCredit: Reuters
J.D. Vance at a press conference.
Vance said that Russia has conceded its ambition to control Ukraine with a puppet government after the warCredit: EPA

Vance told NBC: “We believe we’ve already seen some significant concessions from both sides, just in the last few weeks.”

He said Russia has conceded by recognising “that they’re not going to be able to install a puppet regime in Kyiv”.

“I think the Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in three-and-a-half years of this conflict.

“They’ve actually been willing to be flexible on some of their core demands.

“They’ve talked about what would be necessary to end the war.”

Vance insisted the diplomacy is working – and that the Americans are going about it in the right way.

He also rejected the suggestion that Putin is stringing Trump along.

Vance said: “We’re going to eventually be successful, or we’ll hit a brick wall.

“And if we hit a brick wall, then we’re going to continue this process of negotiation, of applying leverage.

“This is the energetic diplomacy that’s going to bring this war to a close.”

Vlad bombs American factory in Ukraine injuring 23 as Trump suggests Kyiv should attack Russia to win war

The Vice-President was also quizzed on how the government planned on forcing Russia top the table, if it isn’t through new sanctions.

Vance emphasized that Trump has used “aggressive economic leverage,” such as “secondary tariffs on India, to make it more challenging for the Russians to profit from their oil economy”.

In addition to withholding sanctions, America has also been stopping Ukraine from firing long-range missiles into Russia for several months, according to US officials.

The Pentagon implemented a review mechanism in late spring that effectively prevents Kyiv from targeting Russian territory, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

This has stopped Kyiv benefitting from the full firepower of US Atacms and British Storm Shadows.

President Biden authorized Ukraine to use the Atacms last November, and Storm Shadows were launched into Russia for the first time that month.

Two US officials told the paper that a Ukrainian request to use Atacms had already been rejected on at least one occasion.

Trump, meanwhile, has restated the two-week timeframe for reaching a deal.

He said on Friday: “I think over the next two weeks, we’re going to find out which way it’s going to go.

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A resident clutches his dog at the site of an apartment building blitzCredit: Reuters
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A ballistic missile explodes in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichCredit: Reuters
Vladimir Putin speaking at a press conference.
Putin has given little indication he really wants to meet ZelenskyCredit: AFP

Since the Alaska summit between Trump and Putin, a massive Russian blitz in Ukraine seriously damaged an American factory.

Drones and missiles rained down on the electronics factory in western Ukraine on Thursday night – which President Zelensky insisted was deliberate.

Vance said he “doesn’t like” and Trump said he is “not happy” – but the attack doesn’t appear to have derailed US commitment to negotiating.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces claim to have eliminated three Russian perpetrators of the Bucha massacre in a series of retaliatory bombings on the country’s Independence Day, which fell on Saturday.

Ukraine’s military intelligence unit GUR said three Russian soldiers dubbed “Butchers of Bucha” were wiped out in surgical bombings in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.

They were targeted in the Luhansk region while operating as a mobile air defence group to cover a Russian military-repair base.

Bucha is a town close to Kyiv where Russian troops were accused of perpetrating appalling war crimes as they sought to storm Kyiv in 2022.

President Zelenskyy in Bucha, Ukraine, surveying the aftermath of a battle.
Zelensky has been willing on a meeting with his Russian counterpart for monthsCredit: AP
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