Keith Kellogg turned to X to deny exclusive British Times news about what the US Administration’s own envoy was said to be the US plan in the event of a ceasefire agreement with Russia. This is the first time that a tall Trump government official admits that the Dnipri River can become the demarcation line of a divided Ukraine
What the British newspaper The Times published on Friday exclusively, under the title “Trump’s sent: Ukraine can be divided as Berlin in the postwar”, is a “distortion” than Keith Kellogg said. Who says it is Kellogg himself, a former 80-year-old General Donald Trump named his envoy to Russia and Ukraine to reach a ceasefire in the country more than three years after the large-scale invasion of the last one.
“The Times article distorts what I said,” said Kellogg on social network X. “I talked about a ‘stabilization strength’ after a ceasefire, in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty. When I talked about demobilization, I was referring to areas or areas of allied forces responsibility, without the involvement of United States troops.
The Times article misrepresents what I said. I was speaking of a post-cease fire resiliency force in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty. In discussions of partitioning, I was referencing areas or zones of responsibility for an allied force (without US troops). I was NOT referring…
— Keith Kellogg (@generalkellogg)
The problem, however, was that it was. In the interview he gave to the British newspaper, Kellogg claimed that Ukraine is a large enough country to accommodate several armies in the application of a potential ceasefire, suggesting that the country could be divided between the west, patrolled by British and French troops, and the east, in charge of the Russian army-precisely the zone that Moscovo troops have been occupying for more than three. years (and more than 10 in the case of the Crimea Peninsula). Between both would be a demilitarized zone and the Ukrainian forces.
According to the special envoy, the presence of an Anglo-Francise force west of the Dnipro River, which cuts the Ukraine between North and South and crossing Kiev, would not be “all provocative” to Moscow. “It could almost make it look like what happened to Berlin after World War II, when there was a Russian zone, a French zone, a British zone and an American zone.” “West of Rio [Dnipro]which is a big obstacle, ”he said.
“Later” in the interview, Times said, Kellogg clarified that the US would not provide terrestrial forces within this territorial division plan, suggesting, instead, the implementation of the so -called 18 -mile demilitarized zone along the east Ukraine control lines.
“Implicit in the general’s plan on how to pass from a ceasefire to a lasting peace agreement is the US recognition of Russia’s factual control over the lands it currently occupies” in eastern Ukraine, the newspaper said in the same article.
Fonte: The Times
The hypothesis that Russia has controlled the occupied east regions has been widely debated since Donald Trump won the US presidential elections last November, after spending the election campaign promising to end the Ukraine war “in 24 hours.”
It is not sure what Kellogg intended to say or what is the Trump administration’s plan for Ukraine, remained questions about to what extent Russia would accept the presence of NATO troops in the country that continues to occupy partially. Last month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov again reiterated that Kremlin will not accept the presence of NATO Member States soldiers “under any conditions”.
Contrary to what was the case of Nazi Germany in 1945, Ukraine has a functional and pro-western government and can face this comparison with postwar Berlin at least “unkind”, especially given the unfounded argument that Russia repeatedly used to justify its invasion-that of “disinquisifying” Ukraine.
Kellogg’s statements as reported by Times are the clearest proposal to arrive from Trump administration since its inauguration on January 20, after two rounds of US negotiations with Russian delegations and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia. They also mark the first time that a high US employee admits that the Dnipri River could become a line of demarcation within Ukraine if a ceasefire is reached, “although Kellogg does not defend the assignment to Moscow from any other east territory,” the newspaper says.
Yesterday, Steve Witkoff, another of Trump’s special envoys, was to St. Petersburg meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, in yet another attempt to negotiate a ceasefire agreement to Ukraine-with Trump telling the homologist who has to “move”.
Putin emerged on state television to greet Witkoff at the São Petersburg Presidential Library at the beginning of negotiations and state -owned news agencies later than the conversations lasted more than four hours. The details of this conversation are not yet known.
