The US special envoy for Ukraine has arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday morning to “listen” to officials and to discuss “security guarantees” which is part of President Donald Trump’s aims to end the war.
When Kellogg arrived at the platform in Kyiv he was met by press a Ukrainian security team and officials, where he said his mission is to “listen” to Ukraine’s concerns.
Kellogg said, “We understand the need for security guarantees. We understand… the importance of the sovereignty of this nation.
“A part of my mission is to sit and listen and see what your concerns are.”
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he hopes Kellogg can inspect the frontlines whilst he is in Ukraine for the next three days.
Kellogg was sidelined from the Saudi Arabia talks on Tuesday as the Russian’s do not like him.
The Kyiv Independent reported, John Herbst, an expert at the Atlantic Council and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, said, “the Russians did not like Kellogg, because he is the one who is talking about tough measures to get Moscow to negotiate, and negotiate in good faith.”
Herbst told Kyiv Independent, “Kellogg was the most outspoken, the toughest.
“And of course, I always felt that Putin would want to make sure that the key channel between Russia and the United States was Putin to Trump, not anything less. And certainly (Russia did not want) the guy who has been talking tough — Kellogg.”
❗️US Special Representative for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg has arrived in Kyiv.
The US understands the need for security guarantees, – Trump’s special representative.
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Jenny Mathers, a lecturer in international politics at the UK’s Aberystwyth University, echoed a similar sentiment.
Mathers told the Kyiv Independent, “Kellogg certainly seems to be the member of this administration who is the most sympathetic to Ukraine, although he is by no means a fervent supporter of all the terms that the Ukrainian government has identified as necessary for a genuine and sustainable peace.”
