President Trump's special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said on Thursday that foreign countries knew that a sudden suspension of US intelligence sharing was at stake and that their continued choices had caused a final blow.
“Very frankly, they brought it to themselves, Ukrainians,” Kellogg said. speech At the Diplomatic Council.
The Trump administration announced a suspension of information transmission on Wednesday.
Military aid was also temporarily suspended after a fierce meeting between Ukrainian leader Voldy Mie Zelensky and the president was held in an oval office last Friday. There, the two are to sign a mineral agreement that allows the United States to extract rare earth sediments in Ukraine to support the billions of dollars offered in security assistance packages.
Kellogg said the decision to deny Ukraine US Inter was an effort to attract their attention.
“The best way I can explain it is like hitting a mule with a 2 x 4 on the nose. You caught their attention,” Kellogg said.
However, he also said the US is putting pressure on Russia to come to the table for peace negotiations through a “transactional diplomatic approach.”
US and Ukrainian officials are expected to meet in Saudi Arabia next week, hoping to secure a ceasefire with Russia, in addition to a peace agreement with “security guarantees.”
While in the White House last Friday, Zelensky reiterated that the New Deal should be different from past agreements, noting that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022, despite past ceasefire agreements.
