Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia said the president-elect wants that The largest war in Europe since World War II To end as soon as possible, as it is scheduled to enter its third year in February.
Keith Kellogg, a retired US Army lieutenant general who served in the first Trump administration, told America Reports on Wednesday that the “carnage” of the war, which began after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, must end. quickly.
“The Russian losses, the Ukrainian losses, the damage to their cities — this is a war that has to end,” Kellogg said. “And I think he (Trump) can do that in the near term.”
“I have really great confidence in his ability to actually get to a situation where this war actually ends. And I think what people need to understand is that he's not trying to give something away.” (Russian President Vladimir) Putin Or for the Russians. “He's actually trying to save Ukraine and save its sovereignty, and he's going to make sure it's fair and just.”
This photo taken on January 23, 2024, shows the graves of mostly victims killed during last year's Russian raid on a shop and cafe in the village of Gruza, in the cemetery located in Gruza, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Roman Bilipi/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump repeatedly said during his 2024 campaign that he could settle the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours.
At a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, Trump said he knew Putin would like to meet with him but believed such a meeting would not be appropriate until he was formally sworn in as president on Inauguration Day on January 20.
He added that he would like to see the fighting end within six months.
“Look, Russia is losing a lot of young people, and so is Ukraine, and this problem should never have started,” he said. “It is a war that should never have happened.”
The ruins of the city of Turetsk lie in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (Photo by Okrinform/Norphoto via Getty Images)
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Kellogg said he would like to set a shorter timeline, with a goal of 100 days, to end the war.
“Let's limit it to 100 days and go back and figure out a way that we can do this in the near term to make sure that the solution is strong and sustainable and that this war ends so that we can.” Stop the massacre“I think this would be very, very important to do,” he told Fox News anchor Sandra Smith. It will be important to our national security. “It is part of our vital national interests, and it is also good for Europe and the world as well.”
A A senior US Department of Defense official said In October, Russia had suffered more than 600,000 casualties since 2022, and in September alone, their forces had suffered “more casualties in terms of deaths and injuries in combat than in any other month of the war.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry building is visible behind a billboard on social media showing the letters Z – a tactical insignia for Russian forces in Ukraine and the words “Victory is forged with fire” in central Moscow on October 13, 2022. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who met Trump for the first time in New York in late September, The next US president said He is “strong and unpredictable” and would like his “unpredictability” to be “directed primarily towards the Russian Federation.”
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United Nations Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif He said earlier this week that more than 12,300 civilians, including more than 650 children, have been killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
