The Russian side has refused trilateral meetings with US President Donald Trump and representatives from Ukraine, US Vice President J.D. Vance claimed in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.

Trump has increasingly expressed impatience with the pace of Ukraine peace talks. The Kremlin says Kiev has demonstrated that it is not interested in peace by sticking to megaphone diplomacy and ignoring Russian settlement proposals.

“Unfortunately, what we have seen over the last couple weeks, the Russians have refused to sit down with any bilateral meetings with the Ukrainians,” Vance told Fox News.

“They have refused to sit down with any trilateral meetings, where the president or some other member of the administration could sit down with the Russians and the Ukrainians,” he added.

According to Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet Trump if the US leader chooses to take up the invitation and visit Moscow. The offer was extended shortly after their summit in Alaska in August.

“This invitation still stands,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Sunday. “Putin is ready and will be glad to meet President Trump. It will then all depend on Trump’s decision.”

However, a meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky would first require the peace talks to make some headway, Moscow has argued.

An “unprepared” meeting with Zelensky would amount to “a PR-stunt doomed to failure,” Peskov said on Wednesday.

Moscow has maintained that it is ready and willing to settle the Ukraine conflict via diplomatic means.

https://www.rt.com/news/625523-vance-russia-refused-meetings/

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Washington is considering making long-range Tomahawk missiles available for Kiev, Vice President J.D. Vance has told Fox News. The White House is “looking at” the issue, he said on Sunday.

Earlier, several Western news media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph, reported that Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky specifically requested the missiles from the US during a meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York earlier this week.

According to the WSJ, Trump did not oppose the idea and was also open to lifting restrictions on Kiev’s use of US-made weapons in strikes deep into the Russian territory but made no specific commitments during the meeting. The president was previously against giving Tomahawks to Ukraine, according to Axios.

“We’re certainly looking at it,” Vance said when asked if Washington considers selling the missiles to other NATO members so that they could be handed over to Kiev. When further pressed on the issue of a potential escalation that could follow such a step, Vance said that Trump would ultimately determine Washington’s course of action.

The US president’s special envoy, Keith Kellogg, who also talked to Fox News on Sunday, said that “the decision has not been made” yet while confirming that Zelensky did ask Trump for Tomahawks. The missiles have a range of up to 2,500 kilometers and can be equipped with nuclear warheads.

Moscow has previously repeatedly warned that Western arms supplies to Kiev would not change the situation on the frontline and only risk further escalation, potentially leading to a direct conflict between Russia and NATO.

In November 2024, President Vladimir Putin warned that “the regional conflict in Ukraine provoked by the West has assumed elements of a global nature,” and warned of a backlash if tensions escalate further.

His words came after Kiev launched several strikes using US-made ATACMS and HIMARS systems, as well as British-made Storm Shadow missiles, deep inside Russian territory after receiving a green light from its Western backers. The Kremlin then also warned that “reckless decisions” of Western nations supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles cannot be left unanswered.

https://www.rt.com/news/625531-washington-consider-tomahawks-kiev-vance/

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Col Doug Macgregor criticizes Donald Trump’s current Ukraine policy as a repeat of past U.S. mistakes, comparing it to Biden’s approach and calling it “Biden 2.0.” He argues Trump wrongly assumes it’s still 1991, overestimates U.S. strength, and misjudges allies’ willingness or ability to follow America’s lead. Instead of ending funding for Ukraine, Trump has quietly authorized more military aid and pledged up to $1 billion a month for NATO to funnel to Ukraine, depleting U.S. weapons stockpiles and stretching industrial capacity.

He contends this policy mainly enriches the defense industry in what he calls “legalized grift,” likening it to selling ambassadorships or Trump’s own digital currency ventures. Even if war stopped today, it would take 5–10 years to rebuild U.S. munitions inventories; ongoing aid extends that timeline. This weakens U.S. readiness and risks disaster if America is drawn into another war.

Meanwhile, China is reshaping the military and economic balance—supplying advanced missile and radar tech to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, and others, all paid for in gold, while accelerating global “de-dollarization.” NATO is fragmenting, Europe’s main armies are weak, and U.S. currency and debt are deteriorating. The speaker sees Wall Street benefiting while the U.S. public suffers. Trump’s rhetoric about U.S. supremacy may reflect genuine belief rather than bluster, which makes his policy choices more dangerous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVsaHmwMXP0

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