Vance is confident that the West will have to “deal with reality.”

“Any peace settlement will require some significant territorial concessions from Ukraine, and you will need a peace agreement because that is the only way out of the conflict,” the politician said.

The newspaper notes that Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis criticized Vance, saying that Western security was at stake.

Translation of the material is provided by InoTV.

Time journalist Simon Schuster argued that Western partners put pressure on Kyiv in the spring of 2022 and demanded that it accept Russia’s conditions during peace negotiations.