“Asked if the exhaustion on both sides indicated the possibility of negotiations, Kellogg said: “Absolutely. I think both sides are ready””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Asked if the exhaustion on both sides indicated the possibility of negotiations, Kellogg said: “Absolutely. I think both sides are ready.”
“Imagine a fight in a cage. You have two fighters and both want to give up. You need a referee to separate them. And I think President Donald Trump can do that. I think he has a vision for how to do that. I think he has the energy for it. And I think he actually has both sides that are willing to eventually come together and talk,” he said.
Regarding his visit to Ukraine, the special representative promised to provide details later.
The day before, the Reuters agency, citing sources, reported that Kellogg will visit Kyiv and several other European capitals in early January.
Trump has promised to end the war within 24 hours of taking office, if not sooner. Former intelligence and national security officials have expressed doubt that it can be done, in part because Russian President Vladimir Putin may not have a reason to sit down at the negotiating table.
Recently, Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the Ukrainian army lacks the strength to liberate some territories temporarily occupied by Russia and that diplomatic solutions should be sought. And before that, in a conversation with Sky News, he allowed the end of the hot phase of the war on the condition that the government-controlled part of the Ukrainian territory will be taken under the NATO umbrella, which will allow him to later agree on the return of the occupied territories “by diplomatic means.”
These words of the President of Ukraine differ from the previous statements of the Ukrainian authorities, which stated that there will be no diplomatic solutions without returning to the borders of 1991.
Instead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on December 6 that peace in Ukraine is possible only if Ukraine renounces NATO membership and loses part of its territories.