Noah Rothman
Vance, today: "Russia can't expect to be given territory that they haven't even conquered yet." Reuters, one month ago: “The fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, said Witkoff, was to support a strategy that would give Russia ownership of four eastern Ukrainian regions it attempted to annex illegally in 2022."
Christopher Miller
VP Vance to Fox News on Thursday: "We knew that Russia would ask for too much because the Russian perception of the war is on the ground, they're winning. And of course, the Ukrainians would like to do a ceasefire, in part, because things have not been going so well for the