Divide Ukraine into areas controlled by Europeans to the west and the Russians to the east, on the example of Berlin after 1945: Keith Kellogg’s proposalformulated in an interview with the Times, she fell like a boulder on a negotiation for a ceased the already very complicated fire and struggling to take off.
A controversial message, which pushed Donald Trump’s envoy to make a clarification, almost half a back. The truce, despite the pressing of the White House on the Kremlin, still appears a mirage and there have been no substantial carried out even after the face to face in Moscow between Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin.
In this climate of stall, the other emissary of Trump, Kellogg, who holds this dossier on paper, tried to take a step forward imagining a general scenario for Ukraine once the war ended. The former lieutenant general, conversing with the British newspaper Times, He suggested that British and French troops could establish control areas in the country west of the Dnipro river, while in the eastern part the Russians would remain in the occupied areas. In the middle, the Ukrainian forces and a demilitarized area, that is, a buffer area to prevent any fire exchanges between the western and the Russians.
“It could almost seem like what happened in Berlin after the Second World War, when there was a Russian area, a French area, a British area and a US area,” explained Kellogg. The idea of a fragmented and narrow Ukraine between various spheres of influence immediately made the rounds of the international media. At that point Kellogg corrected the shot: “I was talking about a post-ceased resilience force in support of the support of the sovereignty of Ukraine. I did not refer to a division of Ukraine»,, The US correspondent wrote on X. Putting on that the presence of American soldiers would be excluded in this configuration.
Moscow rejected Kellogg’s idea, stating that it could lead to a new escalation, but continued to send ambiguous signals on the immediate future of the conflict. Foreign Minister Serghiei Lavrov, intervening at the Antalya diplomatic forum in Türkiye, reiterated that Moscow is favorable in principle to a ceased on the Black Seaas long as “the errors of the previous agreement are not repeated”: the Russians complain that they have not been able to export their food products, also because of the western sanctions. “The Americans are considering the situation but have not yet answered us,” Lavrov reported, also launching a new storage to the allies of Kiev: “President Trump understands what happens better than the European leaders”. The Ukrainian minister Andrii Sybiha was also present, who had no contact with Lavrov.
In the meantime, the Ukrainians continue the difficult negotiations with the US on rare lands. According to the latest rumors, Washington would also like to control a key gas pipeline for the transit of Russian supplies to Europe. Sources aware of the dossier reported a last American draft American draft than the first version, which demanded 500 billion dollars in rare metals, as well as oil and gas. Kiev analysts speak of “colonial” requests.
Returning instead to the expansionist aims of Putin, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte explained in an interview with the German media that Russia would be evaluating the possibility of placing nuclear weapons in space»With the aim of threatening satellites. «We know that the competition in space is fierce and is becoming even more. And not only in commercial terms and this has repercussions on our entire security, “he warned.