Vance pointed out the intention of the United States to achieve negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in 100 days.

The United States intends to get Russia and Ukraine to participate in direct negotiations over the next 100 days. This was announced on May 1 by Vice President of the United States Jay Dee Vance in an interview with Fox News channel.

"We have taken this first step. We have received a peace offer <...> and we are going to work very hard for the next 100 days to bring these guys together," he said.

Earlier, Vance reported that there was a "big gap" between the position of Russia and Ukraine in the negotiations. According to him, the United States will make efforts to reduce this gap.

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On April 29, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce announced that the United States would cease its participation in negotiations on the conflict in Ukraine in the absence of progress in its settlement. Later, on May 1, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Keith Kellogg denied the US withdrawal from mediation to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.

On April 27, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that negotiations with the United States on the conflict in Ukraine were moving in the right direction. He recalled that the American Secretary of State, among other things, expressed the opinion that during the negotiations Washington better understood Moscow's position, as well as the underlying causes of the conflict.