Vice President JD Vance is poised to meet with U.S. troops at a military installation in England Wednesday \u2013 capping off a high-stakes trip to the U.K. meeting with European leaders to discuss the war in Ukraine ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
Vance\u2019s visit to the U.K. comes as he\u2019s sought to lay some groundwork with European allies leading up to Trump\u2019s talk with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska \u2013 and as he\u2019s turned up the heat on them to take greater ownership in the discussions since the conflict is in their backyard. <\/p>\n
The vice president is slated to visit Royal Air Force Base Fairford, where the U.S. Air Force\u2019s 501st Combat Support Wing and the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron are based. Vance, a former Marine, is expected to voice appreciation for their service, according to a source familiar with Vance\u2019s prepared remarks. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The military installation serves as a key location for U.S. Air Force operations and is Air Force Global Strike Command’s preferred bomber forward operating base in Europe. U.S. Air Force bombers are regularly deployed to the military base as part of Bomber Task Force Europe 25-2 to integrate with NATO allies and sharpen the service\u2019s global strike capabilities. <\/p>\n
Days after Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, several Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers from Fairford conducted joint operations with Germany and Romania over NATO’s eastern flank.<\/p>\n
There are approximately 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in the U.K., according to foreign policy think tank Council on Foreign Relations. <\/p>\n
Prior to addressing U.S. troops, Vance is poised to participate in calls with European leaders to discuss the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Fox News Digital has learned. <\/p>\n
The calls come on the heels of multiple other discussions with European allies on a series of topics \u2013 including the war \u2013 during Vance\u2019s U.K. visit. Vance has met with multiple U.K. leaders, including U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy. <\/p>\n
A U.S. official told Fox News Digital that Vance and Lammy discussed the relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. and the two allies\u2019 shared economic and technology goals during a meeting on Friday at Lammy\u2019s official residence, Chevening House, in Kent, England. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the two leaders also discussed the state of affairs in the Middle East, as well as negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. official said. <\/p>\n
The two also met with representatives of Ukraine and other European allies at Chevening House on Saturday. The meeting led to ‘significant progress’ on ending the conflict in Ukraine, according to a U.S. official. <\/p>\n
No other details were provided regarding the Ukraine talks. It\u2019s unclear if Vance will accompany Trump to Alaska for talks with Putin. <\/p>\n
However, Vance said in an interview with Fox News that he communicated to European leaders that the U.S. is ‘done with the funding of the Ukraine war business,’ and that European allies must assume more responsibility in ending the conflict. <\/p>\n
‘What we said to Europeans is simply, first of all, this is in your neck of the woods, this is in your back door, you guys have got to step up and take a bigger role in this thing, and if you care so much about this conflict you should be willing to play a more direct and a more substantial way in funding this war yourself,’ Vance told Fox News on Sunday. <\/p>\n
Congress has passed multiple measures to support Ukraine, totaling at least $175 billion in spending to aid Ukraine since February 2022, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Trump told reporters Monday that he\u2019d know within minutes is Putin actually interested in a deal or not. Still, he said Moscow and Kyiv must come to terms with some ‘land swapping’ issues to sign off on a deal. <\/p>\n
‘If it\u2019s a fair deal, I will reveal it to the European Union leaders and the NATO leaders and also to President Zelenskyy,’ Trump said. ‘I may say, \u2018lots of luck, keep fighting,\u2019 or I may say we can make a deal.’<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s meeting with Putin also comes as his relationship with the Russian leader has soured as peace negotiations have lagged. While the two seemed to remain cordial with each other publicly during Trump\u2019s first administration, that\u2019s changed in recent weeks as Trump has grown fed up with Putin\u2019s tactics. <\/p>\n
‘We get a lot of bulls— thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,’ Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on July 8. ‘He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.’<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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