Vice President JD Vance shared optimism on a potential end to the war between Russia and Ukraine during an exclusive interview with NBC News' Meet the Press released on Sunday (August 24).

“We believe we’ve already seen some significant concessions from both sides, just in the last few weeks,” Vance said.

Vance's optimism came after President Donald Trump told reporters that he wasn't happy about Russia's overnight missile strike in western Ukraine on Thursday (August 21), which struck an electronics factory owned by a U.S. company.

“I don’t like it,” Vance said of the incident. “But this is a war, and this is why we want to stop the killing. The Russians have done a lot of things that we don’t like. A lot of civilians have died. We’ve condemned that stuff from the get-go and, frankly, President Trump has done more to apply pressure and to apply economic leverage to the Russians, certainly, than Joe Biden did for 3 ½ years, when he did nothing but talk, did nothing to bring the killing to a stop. So you asked me what I’m enraged by? What I’m enraged by is the continuation of the war.”

Trump, who met with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenksyy on separate occasions in recent weeks, claimed a peace deal between the two countries could be weeks away.

“I think over the next two weeks, we’re going to find out which way it’s going to go,” Trump said via NBC News.