Trump to name retired Army lieutenant general as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia

 

FILE – Keith Kellogg, AFPI Co-Chair of the Center for American Security, center, speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee full committee hearing on the conflict in Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will nominate retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to serve as assistant to the president and special envoy for Ukraine and Russia.

Kellogg was chief of staff on Trump’s National Security Council during his first administration and was the national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence.

“Together, we will secure peace through strength, and make America, and the world, safe again,” Trump said in a statement naming Kellogg as envoy.

Kellogg spoke exclusively with VOA’s Ukrainian service in July about his vision for ending the war in Ukraine, published as part of the book, “An America First Approach to U.S. National Security.” At the time he said he had not presented the plan to Trump nor was he a formal adviser but said the plan would be one option to consider.

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He recommended then that the U.S. begin a formal policy "to seek a ceasefire and negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict."

"Over time, all conflicts end in some type of negotiation. So you want to make sure that the Ukrainians do not come from a position of weakness, but also from a position of strength. So the question is how to do it? How to put the right components in their places," Kellogg told VOA in July.

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