US ready to spend another 100 days to achieve Russia-Ukraine peace

The Trump administration is ready to spend another 100 days trying to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, Vice President JD Vance said in a Fox News interview aired on Monday. He said the US has made some progress in getting both sides to come up with proposals to resolve the conflict.

“We’ve made that first step,” the vice president said, reflecting on the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term. “We have a peace proposal, and we’re going to work very hard over the next 100 days to try to bring the two sides together.”

Mr. Vance noted that before the Trump administration intervened, Moscow and Kiev “were not even talking—not to each other, not to anyone else. They were just fighting.” “Now the job of diplomacy is to try to bring them closer together,” he added, acknowledging that there was still “a huge gap between what Russia wants and what Ukraine wants.”

During last year’s election campaign, Mr Trump pledged to end the conflict “within 24 hours” of entering the White House – a promise he later admitted was “a bit of an exaggeration”. Since taking office in January 2025, he has been pressing both sides to reach a ceasefire and has recently expressed frustration at the slow pace of progress.

While Russia has praised Mr. Trump and his team for “understanding Russia’s position better” than the Biden administration, Moscow has insisted that any comprehensive ceasefire must include Ukraine ending its military mobilization and stopping the receipt of foreign weapons. Both sides have accused each other of violating a month-long “energy ceasefire” brokered by Mr. Trump in March, as well as a 30-hour “Easter truce” last month.

Russia has demanded that Ukraine abandon its claims to Crimea and four other regions and abandon its ambitions to join NATO. On May 1, Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg said Kiev had agreed to recognize the fact that Russia controls what Ukraine calls “occupied territories,” although it has yet to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over them. However, Ukraine has repeatedly said it will not cede any territory to Russia.