“I had a good meeting with the special envoy of the President of the United States, General Keith Kellogg“wrote Volodymyr Zelensky on social networks.”We discussed how we can influence the Russians, forcing them to take part in real negotiations and to end the war. Sanctions, customs duties – everything must remain on the agenda“, He added. He also said that Washington and kyiv developed security guarantees, claimed by Ukraine from his Western allies to protect himself from future Russian attacks in the event of a peace agreement. Volodymyr Zelensky said they expected their main points to be sketched”shortly“. But finding an agreement on security guarantees promises to be complex.
Europeans and Americans have mentioned different possibilities ranging from a collective security clause inspired by article 5 of NATO, to the deployment of a military quota in Ukraine, or to support for training and armaments. Moscow, who considers the expansion of NATO at its borders as one of the “deep causes“Having led to the conflict, rejects most of these possibilities categorically and wants its requirements to be taken into account.
The American emissary Keith Kellogg went to Ukraine to participate last weekend in the celebration of the independence of this former Soviet Republic, invaded by Russia since 2022.