RUSSIA has abandoned its ambitions to control Ukraine after the war, according to JD Vance - who counts it as a key concession win.

The US Vice-President remains confident Trump will broker an end the fighting , as it emerges America has been blocking Ukraine from firing long-range missiles into Russia.

Vance told NBC: “We believe we’ve already seen some significant concessions from both sides, just in the last few weeks."

He said Russia has conceded by recognising "that they're not going to be able to install a puppet regime in Kyiv ".

“I think the Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in three-and-a-half years of this conflict.

“They’ve actually been willing to be flexible on some of their core demands.

"They’ve talked about what w

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