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US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, has said Washington and Kyiv have reached an agreement on 22 concrete action plans aimed at ending the war with Russia.
Kellogg spoke to Fox News on Tuesday about last week’s peace talks in London, which included representatives from the US, Ukraine, and the E3 countries (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany).
“We came up with 22 very specific actions, after very candid and frank and hard discussions with the Ukrainians, we think we’re in a very, very good position,” he said.
He admitted that Ukrainian officials “didn’t like them all,” but “that’s normal when you have any negotiations,” and that “I think we’re in pretty good shape with them.”
“When you look at everything the Ukrainians are willing to work with, now it’s over to the Russians, over to Putin. We’ve got one side. Now you need to come up the other side. And I think we’re close,” he added.
Kellogg dismisses Russia’s ceasefire as ‘Absurd’
Kellogg criticized Russia’s three-day ceasefire earlier this month, calling it “absurd,” and reiterated Trump’s call for a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire agreement.
He argued that Russia is not winning a portion of the war, claiming, “Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half.”
“Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half. They haven’t taken the city of Kyiv, the capital. They haven’t pushed west of the Dnieper River, which is a major obstacle. They haven’t taken Odessa. They’ve lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers. And they haven’t really moved anything.”
“Ukrainians are fighting on their own soil. They’re fighting hard,” he added.
Kellogg also mentioned growing European support for Ukraine, saying a new “resiliency force” led by the UK and France, but excluding US troops, is being planned.
