India, June 23 -- US vice president JD Vance proposed that Indian troops could be part of a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine to help ensure a ceasefire in the war with Russia during a meeting in the Oval Office on January 30 last year, just 10 days after US President Donald Trump's inauguration, according to a newly published book.

The book, titled "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump", written by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, examines the first 14 months of Trump's second term in office.

According to the book, retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, whom Trump appointed as special presidential envoy for Ukraine and Russia, held a meeting in the Oval Office 10 days after th...