Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia said that’s what the newly elected president wants largest war in Europe since World War II will end as soon as possible as it enters its third year in February.
Keith Kellogg, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who served in Trump’s first 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 victims, the Ukrainian victims, the damage to their cities – this is a war that must end. And I think he (Trump) can do this in short order,” Kellogg said.
“I really have a lot of confidence in his ability to actually get to a position where this war is actually over.” And I think what people need to understand – he’s not trying to give anything (Russian President Vladimir) Putin or to the Russians. He’s trying to save Ukraine and their sovereignty, and he’s going to make sure it’s fair and just.”
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This photo, taken on January 23, 2024, shows the graves most of which are victims killed during last year’s Russian attack in a shop and cafe in the village of Groza, at the cemetery in Groza, Kharkov region, amid of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (ROMANCE PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump said repeatedly on the 2024 campaign trail that he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours.
At a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, Trump said he knows Putin would like to meet with him, but that such a meeting would be inappropriate until he is officially 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 that should never have started,” he said. “That is a war that should never have happened.”
The ruins of the city of Toretsk are located in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (Photo by Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Kellogg said he would like to set an even shorter timetable, with a goal of 100 days to end the war.
“Let’s put it at 100 days and go all the way back and figure out a way that we can do this in the short term to make sure that the solution is solid and sustainable and that this war ends so that we stop the carnagehe told Fox News host Sandra Smith. ‘I think that will be very, very important. It will be important for our national security. It is part of our vital national interests, and it is also good for Europe and the world.”
A said a senior US defense official in October that Russia has suffered more than 600,000 casualties since 2022, and in September alone their armed forces suffered “more casualties in terms of both deaths and injuries in battle than in any other month of the war.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry building is seen behind a social billboard with Z letters – a tactical insignia of Russian forces in Ukraine and the text “Victory is forged in fire” in central Moscow on October 13, 2022. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, who met Trump for the first time in New York at the end of September, said the incoming American president is ‘strong and unpredictable’ and he would like to see that ‘unpredictability’ ‘directed primarily against the Russian Federation’.
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United Nations deputy human rights chief Nada Al-Nashif said earlier this week that more than 12,300 civilians, including more than 650 children, have been killed since the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
