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Bloomberg: Trump’s Ukraine envoy reportedly plans Moscow visit in January 2025

Keith Kellogg is allegedly planning a diplomatic mission to Europe, including a possible visit to Moscow.
byOlena Mukhina
18/12/2024
2 minute read
Russia to choose between guns and butter in 2025, Bloomberg predicts
The Kremlin in Moscow. Photo: Depositphotos
Bloomberg: Trump’s Ukraine envoy reportedly plans Moscow visit in January 2025

US President-elect Donald Trump’s newly appointed Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, plans to visit Kyiv next month and will be open to meetings in Moscow if invited, according to Bloomberg.

Following Trump’s election victory, discussions have emerged about potential peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, as Trump has expressed a desire to end the war swiftly. However, it remains uncertain how he will persuade Moscow to engage in negotiations. Reports suggest that Trump might consider a peace deal that compromises Ukraine’s territorial integrity, raising concerns among allies regarding future US support for Ukraine.

A source familiar with the situation also reported that Kellogg plans to visit London, Paris, and Rome, though these plans have not been finalized.

“Kellogg’s potential openness to travel to Moscow after Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration would be an extraordinary step for a US official amid the raft of sanctions against Russia since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine,” says the report.

The source emphasized that the trip would focus on gathering information, not pursuing any specific political agenda.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s team has not yet responded to Bloomberg’s inquiry regarding the planned trip.

Earlier, Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev reacted to potential peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, saying that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin would reject them.

“Kellogg comes to Moscow with his plan, we take it and then tell him to screw himself because we don’t like any of it. That’d be the whole negotiation,” Malofeyev told the Financial Times.

He added that Trump “only has a chance of ending the war” if he does what Russia wants. In June 2024, Putin said Russia would cease fighting if Ukraine abandoned its aspirations to join NATO and withdrew its troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, RBC reports.

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