INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
United States Vice President JD Vance said the United States could hit Moscow with sanctions and potential military action if Russian
President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv&s long-term independence, the Wall Street Journal
reported on Thursday.There are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage& the United States could use
against Putin, Vance said in an interview with the newspaper, according to Reuters.United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday
discussed the war with Russian President Vladimir Putin and separately with Ukraine&s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and told United States
officials to begin talks on ending the nearly three-year-long conflict.The phone calls came shortly after United States Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth told Ukraine&s military allies in Brussels that a return to Ukraine&s pre-2014 borders & before Russia annexed Crimea & was
unrealistic and that the United States does not see NATO membership for Kyiv as part of a solution.Ukrainians on Thursday worried that
Trump was preparing to sell out their country following his phone call Putin.However, Trump on Thursday said that Ukraine would be involved
in peace talks with Russia
He told reporters at the White House that Ukraine would have a seat at the table during any peace negotiations with Russia over ending the
war.Kyiv said it would be premature to speak with Moscow at a security conference on Friday.I think there is a deal that is going to come
out of this that&s going to shock a lot of people,& the newspaper quoted Vance as saying.The president is not going to go in this with
&He&s going to say, ‘Everything is on the table, let&s make a deal.&The post US VP Vance threatens sanctions, military action to push
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