““If you are a soldier, especially an infantryman, you understand that the last 10 meters to the target are always the most difficult. And I think we’re in the last 10 meters of trying to end this conflict,” Keith Kellogg said”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“When we talk about Ukraine, where we are today compared to where we were a year or two ago, if you’re in the military, especially the infantry, you understand that the last 10 meters to the goal are always the most difficult. And I think we are in the last 10 meters of trying to end this conflict,” he said at the forum.
According to him, attention is currently focused on the issues of the Donetsk region and the Zaporizhzhia NPP, which was occupied by Russian troops.
Kellogg believes that “the rest of the things will work out pretty well.”
The special representative of the US president reminded that the scale of this war is unprecedented when it comes to a regional conflict.
“The Soviet Union left Afghanistan with the loss of 18,000 (military). We left Vietnam with a loss of 58,000. Russia and Ukraine together lost over two million. Think about it. These are terrible numbers. And so we need to end the conflict… So I think we’re almost there,” he said.
The special representative of the US president in Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said that there are “two meters” left before the end of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and he supported the peace initiative of the Donald Trump administration, which
On November 23, on the day of the meeting in Geneva of representatives of the USA, Ukraine and European countries regarding Trump’s peace initiative, he said that there were “two meters” left before the end of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Read also: Ukraine and Russia may now be “closer than ever” to a peace agreement – Whitaker
Late in the evening of December 2 in Moscow, negotiations between American representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner with Russian leader Vladimir Putin regarding the parameters of a possible peace agreement in the Russian-Ukrainian war ended. After this conversation, Putin’s assistant Yuriy Ushakov said that “so far no compromise option (peaceful settlement) has been found, but some American developments look more or less acceptable.”
Subsequently, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that during a meeting with Witkoff and Kushner on December 2, Russian representatives did not agree with part of the points of the American plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. Putin noted that during the meeting it was necessary to “walk through every point” of the peace initiative. Earlier, Putin’s aide Yuriy Ushakov said that the substantive points were not discussed, but rather the general concept was discussed.
After this meeting, the Ukrainian delegation in the US continued negotiations with representatives of the Trump administration.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on the evening of December 6 that together with Andrii Hnatov and Rustem Umerov they had a “long and meaningful” telephone conversation with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
According to Axios, this conversation lasted about two hours, and the discussion of the territories was difficult. As the publication writes, Russia still demands that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the parts of Donbas it controls, but the US is trying to develop new ideas to overcome this issue.
“Another key issue was US security guarantees to Ukraine. One source said the parties have made significant progress and are close to an agreement, but more work needs to be done to ensure both sides have the same interpretation of the draft security assurances,” Axios noted.