U.S. President Donald Trump’s particular envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, arrived in Kyiv on Monday, a senior Ukrainian official mentioned, as anticipation grew over doable adjustments within the Trump administration’s insurance policies on the greater than three-year warfare.
Trump final week teased that he would make a “main assertion” on Russia on Monday. Trump made rapidly stopping the warfare considered one of his diplomatic priorities, and he has more and more expressed frustration about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unbudging stance.
Putin “talks good after which he bombs everyone,” Trump mentioned late Sunday, as he confirmed the U.S. is sending Ukraine badly wanted U.S.-made Patriot air protection missiles to assist it fend off Russia’s intensifying aerial assaults.
A high ally of Trump, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, mentioned Sunday that the battle is nearing an inflection level as Trump reveals rising curiosity in serving to Ukraine struggle again towards Russia’s full-scale invasion. It’s a trigger that Trump had beforehand dismissed as being a waste of U.S. taxpayer cash.
Additionally, NATO Secretary-Common Mark Rutte was due in Washington on Monday and Tuesday. He deliberate to carry talks with Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth in addition to members of Congress.
Talks throughout Kellogg’s go to to Kyiv will cowl “protection, strengthening safety, weapons, sanctions, safety of our individuals and enhancing cooperation between Ukraine and the USA,” mentioned the top of Ukraine’s presidential workplace, Andrii Yermak.
“Russia doesn’t desire a stop fireplace. Peace via energy is President Donald Trump’s precept, and we assist this strategy,” Yermak mentioned.
