Shortly before sitting down with Mr Vance at the Munich Security Conference, the Ukrainian president said he will only agree to meet in-person with Russian leader Vladimir Putin after a common plan is negotiated with US President Donald Trump.
Volodymyr Zelensky said during a meeting with US vice president JD Vance that Ukraine wants "security guarantees" before any talks to end the Ukraine-Russia war.
In his own remarks to the conference, Mr Vance lectured European officials on free speech and illegal migration on the continent, warning elected officials that they risk losing public support if they do not quickly change course.
Mr Zelensky spoke shortly before going into a meeting with US vice president JD Vance.
The vice president also warned European officials against illegal migration, saying the electorate did not vote to open "floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants" and referencing an attack on Thursday in Munich where the suspect is a 24-year-old Afghan who arrived in Germany as an asylum seeker in 2016.
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