I do not think that we should bear the burden here. I think that we should be helpful if it is necessary to get an end to the war and the killing. But what we should expect, and what the president definitely expects, is that Europe takes the lead role here, says Vance to the Fox News program "The Ingraham Angle".
The statement comes after the US President Donald Trump in recent days has met both Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj and Russia's President Vladimir Putin for talks about the war in Ukraine.
At Monday's summit in Washington, between the US and Ukraine and several European leaders, security guarantees for Ukraine were discussed. However, it is still unclear what it would entail.
Corrected: In an earlier version of the text, JD Vance was given the wrong title in the caption.
