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

Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made "significant concessions" to help end its war in Ukraine. Has it?

Faced with a stalling peace push, Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that Russia had made "significant concessions" in ending its war in Ukraine.

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

Vance told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday that the Kremlin had been “flexible on some of their core demands” — namely recognizing “that they are not going to be able to install a puppet regime” in Kyiv, and “that there is going to be some security guarantee to the territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

That appears at odds with Russian officials, who have spent the days since the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska pushing back on both of these points.

Also on “Meet the Press” was Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who — while not advocating the installation of a Russian puppet — made no secret of Moscow’s belief that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is illegitimate.