Variance of jointly distributed random variables

sorry but your question is immediate...and you do not need to know how $U$ is distributed. Are you sure about the question?

You are given that

$$(V|U=u)\sim \text{Exp}(u)$$

thus

$$\mathbb{V}[V|U=u]=\frac{1}{u^2}$$

Sure that you are not asked to find $\mathbb{V}[V]$?