'US wants a durable peace in Ukraine,' US Vice President JD Vance says after meeting Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Both Vance and Zelenskyy confirmed they had had a "good" conversation and would meet again for talks in the future.

"Our first meeting, not last, I'm sure," Zelenskyy said after the meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

Vance was joined by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Keith Kellogg, who is President Donald Trump's special envoy on the Ukraine war.

"We want the war to come to a close, we want the killing to stop, but we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road," Vance said after the meeting.

"It's important for us to get together and start to have the conversations that are going to be necessary to bring this thing to a close," the vice president said, with reference to the war in Ukraine.

"That's all I'm going to say for now, because I want to preserve the optionality here for the negotiators and our respective teams to bring this thing to a responsible close," he said.

The meeting comes after Donald Trump Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin and both leaders agreed to immediately start talks to end the Ukraine war.

Trump had described the call as "lengthy and highly productive" in a post on Truth Social, saying that the two leaders had even agreed to visit each other's nations to address the deep tensions since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy too had a phone call with Trump.

Trump had said that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy too wanted "peace," after the US president spoke to Russia's Vladimir Putin about talks to end the Ukraine war.