After a two-day whirlwind visit to Ukraine, President Donald Trump's retirement envoy General Keiskellogg, who is retiring from Russia and Ukraine, was notable in sealing off the rare integration agreement with the country under attack by Russia's powerful Vladimir Putin. It's within the distance.
“The minerals are almost complete,” a well-placed source told Fox News.
The Ukrainian side proposed the contract text and sent it back to the US, another source involved in the speech told Fox News.
Trump is seeking the right to access Ukraine's natural resources in exchange for the US providing billions of dollars to support Eastern European countries against Russian invasions. Trump said Friday that the mineral trade was “very close.”
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Keith Kellogg, the US Special Envoy to Ukraine and Russia, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Voldymi Zelensky during Russia's attack on Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine on February 20, 2025. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
The White House stresses that the deal is not a guarantee of future aid for the war with Russia.
Ukraine is surrounded by existential war. Ukrainian efforts to counter Russia's occupation are seen as a test case for a free democratic state to maintain a global order based on rules.
Kellogg visited the injured Ukrainian troops and met with Ukrainian President Voldymi Zelenki. Meanwhile, Trump assaulted him with Zelensky earlier this week, blowing him up as a “no-election dictator.”
Trump responded to his comment on Friday that Russia had not invaded Ukraine. He told Fox News Radio that Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian President Voldy Mie Zelensky and General Keis Kheeskellog, envoy of President Donald Trump, will meet in Kiev, Ukraine on February 20, 2025. (Maxym Marusenko/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
“The outcome of Trump's play against rare earth minerals is now uncertain. The battlefield situation supports Russia, and on the diplomatic side, Rebekah Koffler, a former defence intelligence agency officer, told Fox News Digital. Part. It is a battle of will between the master of manipulation and the master of the art of contract, and Zelensky is just trying to survive. figurative and literal.”
Koffler, author of Putin's Playbook and host of Trump's Playbook podcast, warned of defects in the mineral trade. “The problem is that the majority of these deposits are in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, where Russia controls it. Putin is keenly aware of Trump's unconventional approach to business transactions. Europe's largest lithium Includes sediment.”
Russia sent troops to Ukraine on February 24, 2022 nearly three years ago, illegally absorbing independent states into Russian territory. According to UN experts, Russian troops committed war crimes against Ukrainian citizens.
Kellogg visited the injured Ukrainian troops at Irpin Military Hospital. Cait Lindonbus of the New York Post accompanied Kellogg on his tour. She reported that Kellogg and Ukrainian ambassador Bridget A. Brink visited the hospital on Friday.
The New York Post states that Kellogg said, “The biggest reason I'm here is that President Trump wants to stop the murder, and you're where you see what the murder looks like. I said I had to go to. Likewise, I see young men and women injured as soldiers. This gives me the opportunity to see them.”
According to the post, “Kellogg visited a unit of about 20 people and sat with each to have individual discussions. One lost both legs, eyes and hearing and suffered a traumatic brain injury. ”
President Donald Trump called Zelensky a “no-election dictator” this week. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarck)
According to the Post, a Ukrainian soldier named Dennis asked Kellogg. “In your opinion, can you trust Russia? Will they negotiate?”
Kellogg replies, “We need to look back at history and have the ability to negotiate. Every war ends through negotiation, the ultimate victory on the battlefield ends with diplomacy, and today's world is no exception.” Ta.
The retired general continued. The answer is, yes, that's right. ”
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“I think the nations around the world recognize aggression. Sometimes soldiers' diplomacy is awkward, but what the soldiers are doing is that he's time for politicians and diplomats to reach a conclusion,” Kellogg said. That's why I make Ukraine is owed you, we need to finish this correctly to you.”
The number of deaths in the Ukraine-Russian War is the direction of the stomach. According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of deaths and injuries based on September estimates is almost 1 million.
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Dennis, a wounded Ukrainian soldier, told Kellogg that Ukraine must have a “strong army.” He said after negotiations that “it's because he's worried that it will be a peace of mind for up to 10 years and then return to the next stage of the war. “I reported the post.
Kellogg replied, “Well, I think the intention is that there will be no next war.”
Kellogg also visited Ilpin Bridge on Friday, a scene of a powerful setback against Russian jingoism. “Ukrainian soldiers played an important role in slashing the bridge during Russia's first 2022 invasion and halting Moscow's advance to Kiev,” he posted.
“I know how soldiers fight for freedom, people fight for people. I know what I mean. Anyone who fought for freedom,” Kellogg told the post on the bridge. I understand what they did. [Coming here] The opportunity to see one of the places they fought, give them the respect they deserve, and their soldiers – that's why I wanted to do it. That's one thing I can do is take over my respect.
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“We know how soldiers fight for freedom, we know what that means. Anyone who fought for freedom understands what they did,” Kellogg said. . [Coming here] It's an opportunity to see one of the places they fought and give them the respect they deserve.
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The retired general paid tribute to soldiers who fought Russian imperialism in historic places.
He said, “One thing you can't really understand until you think it's an intangible mind is you can't really understand it [of soldiers] And what they showed here was the heart. And that's something you can't measure. And that's what really saved Ukraine. It wasn't necessarily a weapon, and not necessarily the fact that the world was opposed to Russian invasion. It was the fact that the soldiers decided to fight for their country. ”
Jennifer Griffin, Nana Sajaia and Brie Stimson of Fox News contributed to this report.
