US vice president to meet Zelenskyy in Munich after Trump-Putin talks spark ire

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

American vice president JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio will lead the US delegation to the Munich Security Conference, where world leaders and diplomats are gathering amid intense concern and uncertainty over the Trump administration’s foreign policy.

The future of Ukraine will be the top item on the agenda following a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week when they pledged to work together to end the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine conflict.