President Trump's envoy to Ukraine and Russia on Friday was called Ukrainian President Voldymir Zelensky after a meeting in Kiev, a prominent shift from Trump's recent attack on Zelensky.
“A long and intense day with senior Ukrainian leaders. @zelenskyyuathe battle and brave leader of a nation at war and his talented national security team,” Keith Kellogg Posted on Thursday morning Social Platform X.
Kellogg, a retired US Army lieutenant general who served as national security in Trump's first term, met with Zelensky to discuss the path the Trump administration could move forward to end the war in Ukraine.
Zelensky I wrote it on social media The meeting “restores hope and requires a strong agreement with the United States, that is, a real agreement.”
“We discussed the frontline situation, the need to release all the prisoners held in Russia, and the need for clear and reliable security assurances. Again, he wrote in the X post. I added.
The positive dialogue between Kellogg and Zelensky comes when Trump becomes increasingly critical of Ukrainian leaders. Trump recently called the Ukrainian leader “an election-free dictator” and claimed he was doing “a scary job,” falsely suggesting that Zelensky was the one who started a war with Russia. .
Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The invasion took place almost a decade after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Trump administration officials met with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia earlier this week to begin talking about the end of the war. Zelensky had expressed his dissatisfaction that Ukrainian officials were not involved in the discussion.
