CNN reveals Trump’s special representative’s “peace plan” for Ukraine
Kit Kellogg, the future special representative of the U.S. for Ukraine and Russia, proposes to freeze the front lines in his "peace plan." He also allegedly advocates for compelling both Kyiv and Moscow to come to the negotiating table and for lifting sanctions against the aggressor country.
This was reported by CNN.
The 80-year-old former national security advisor to Trump, Kellogg, who will take up the position of special representative for Ukraine in the new U.S. administration, criticized the actions of the White House, accusing President Joe Biden's administration of providing Ukraine with weapons too late and insufficiently as part of defense aid.
He claims that Ukraine should have been given more weapons before and immediately after Russia's large-scale invasion so that the Ukrainian side could achieve victory.
According to Kellogg, Trump’s “soft” approach to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin allegedly allows him to reach an agreement.
Kellogg asserts that the U.S. should not get involved "in another conflict," and that their own stockpiles of weapons have been strained by assistance to Ukraine, which could leave the U.S. vulnerable in any conflict, such as with China over Taiwan.
Kellogg states that Ukraine's NATO membership is, in fact, a "very distant prospect." He believes that the offer of joining the North Atlantic Alliance, which was initially made to Kyiv as a sign of "symbolic solidarity," should be suspended indefinitely "in exchange for a comprehensive peace agreement with security guarantees."
The plan primarily states that it should become "the official U.S. policy for a ceasefire and negotiations."
Kellogg's "peace plan" also indicates that any forthcoming U.S. assistance, which may likely be in the form of a loan, will depend on negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
And that the U.S. will provide Ukraine with enough weapons for defense and to halt any further advances of Russian occupiers "before and after any peace agreement."
According to CNN, Kellogg supports freezing the front lines through a ceasefire and the establishment of a "demilitarized zone."
"In exchange for agreeing to this, Russia would receive partial sanctions relief, and full relief only after a peace agreement that Ukraine approves is signed," the American broadcaster conveys the opinion of the U.S. special representative.
At the same time, it is noted in such a plan that Ukraine would not be asked to forgo reclaiming the territories occupied by Russia, but Kyiv must pursue this only through diplomatic means.
Kellogg acknowledges that "this will require a future diplomatic breakthrough, which is unlikely to happen until Putin leaves office."
"This is a grim compromise for a grim war. But it may not end things; instead, it could open a new chapter where Western unity and support begin to erode, and Putin, both at the negotiating table and on the front lines, gets closer to his goals," CNN reports in the context of the reaction to this "peace plan."
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