Washington – Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg will become the US special envoy for the war in Ukraine in the next administration, President-elect Donald Trump said. A quick end to the war was one of his important campaign promises.
The United States does not currently have a representative for the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which has been going on for three years, but Republican Trump has previously stated that he would like to create such a post.
The 80-year-old Kellogg, who also served in the White House during the first Trump administration and was a security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, will likely play a central role in the newly elected president’s efforts to end the conflict, according to Reuters. It was he who presented Trump with a plan to end the war.
“We’re going to say to the Ukrainians, ‘You have to come to the negotiating table, and if you don’t come to the negotiating table, the support from the United States will dry up,'” Kellogg recounted part of it this June. “And we will say to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, ‘You have to sit at the negotiating table, and if you don’t sit at the table, then we will give the Ukrainians everything they need to kill you on the battlefield.’
Alongside Kellogg, the former employee of the American Central Intelligence Service (CIA) Fred Fleitz is also behind the plan, which also includes postponing Ukraine’s NATO membership indefinitely.
The United States under the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden was and is the biggest supporter of Ukraine.
USA Ukraine Russia struggles diplomacy Trump PHOTO
Source: www.ceskenoviny.cz
