U.S. Vice President James D. Vance warned that while he “can’t say [with] 100% certainty” that peace would be achieved, he was certain that “if this doesn’t stop, the Ukrainians aren’t winning the war.

Axar.az reports “I think there’s this weird idea among the mainstream media that if this thing goes on for just another few years, the Russians will collapse, the Ukrainians will take their territory back, and everything will go back to the way it was before the war,” he added. “That is not the reality we live in.”

Vance also predicted that continued fighting would leave Russia and Ukraine grappling with a demographic “nightmare” and risk “escalating it to a nuclear war.”