Kellogg Outlined How Russia's War Against Ukraine Could End
- 12.06.2025, 14:49
The special representative of the U.S. President compared Zelensky to Lincoln.
U.S. presidential special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg described what an end to Russian aggression against Ukraine might look like, writes New Voice.
In Brussels during a German Marshall Fund forum, Kellogg said he expects "a sense of confidence" after reading Ukrainian and Russian proposals for ending the war.
"Right now, we feel pretty confident. We know what the end state can and should look like. And if we could just get to that point, we believe it can be 'won'. By win-win, I mean the ability to get to a peace agreement," Kellogg said.
He specified that the "end state" could look like a comprehensive cease-fire.
"A cease-fire on the ground - that is, on the ground you are physically on," he said.
Trump's spokesman added that after the cease-fire, the U.S. expects the return of children to Ukraine and a prisoner exchange.
"Then it's to try to get the Russians back to what I would call the League of Nations. So everybody is working together...You can all live with the results of that in the long run," Kellogg emphasized.
He also noted the efforts of Vladimir Zelensky and noted that he had brought it to the attention of the U.S. president.
"We haven't had an American president since Abraham Lincoln who has had to do what President Zelensky has done. He is waging a war for national survival on his own soil," he emphasized.
The second meeting of delegations from Ukraine and the aggressor country Russia was held in Istanbul on June 2. According to Russian media, it lasted more than an hour. The parties agreed on the exchange of prisoners of war in an "all for all" format of two categories - seriously wounded and seriously ill and young military men under the age of 25.
Ukraine offered the aggressor a meeting at the level of leaders by the end of the month with the possibility of the presence of a third party - for example, the American president. Peskov said afterward that the talks were "unlikely" to take place in the near future.