Vance says Russia has made ‘significant concessions’ in Ukraine talks. Has it?

Faced with a surge of peace in the calculation, the vice-president JD Vance said on Sunday that Russia had made “important concessions” to end his war in Ukraine.

There is little public evidence, however, that Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved his ambitions from an inch since he launched his large -scale invasion in February 2022.

Vance said NBC News on Sunday that the Kremlin had been “flexible on some of their basic requests” – namely “that they will not be able to install a puppet regime” in kyiv and “that there will be a security guarantee for the territorial integrity of Ukraine”.

This appears in contradiction with the Russian officials, who spent the days from the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska by pushing these two points.

The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, who – without defending the installation of a Russian puppet – was not also secret.

Russia was open to Ukraine with security guarantees, said Lavrov last week – but only if the Kremlin can play a role in them, which probably makes them useless.

“We cannot agree” to “solve collective security problems without the Russian Federation. This will not work,” he said at a press conference. “I am sure that in the West and especially in the United States, they understand perfectly that the seriously discussed discussion of security problems without the Russian Federation is a utopia, a path to nowhere.”

Far from being a new and important concession, Lavrov clearly indicated that security guarantees should be based on talks in Istanbul in 2022.

NBC News contacted the White House to comment if Russia had compromised.

Despite the trenched remarks of Lavrov, there may be subtle clues that Putin is ready to make an agreement – and it is without knowing what happened behind closed doors.

“We do not know what has been said in Alaska, that’s the problem,” British director of the Mayak Intelligence council said in NBC News. “It may be that Vance says reflects what Putin said there.”

Although Russian officials remain firmly, the closely controlled media of Russia have been significantly less critical towards the uslenskyy usually vilinery, he said. And academics close to Kremlin have suggested that there could be rides for Kremlin requests.