Donald Trump may tell Ukraine and Russia “it’s your fight” if they fail to make progress on peace talks in the next two weeks.

President Trump has "a lot of cards left to play to apply pressure" to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Vice President JD Vance said in an interview broadcast Sunday. The big picture: Vance said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that he didn't think Moscow was stringing Trump along after Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a separate interview on the same show that no leaders' meeting had been planned between Russia's Vladimir Putin

U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy.