Kellogg calls Russia’s three-day ceasefire proposal ‘absurd’

The Hill ^ | 4/29/2025 | SARAH FORTINSKY

[marcusmaximus]

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, President Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, called the Russian proposal for a three-day ceasefire next week “absurd” and said the U.S. wants a more lasting peace deal in Ukraine.

“A three-day ceasefire is absurd. What the president wants is a permanent, comprehensive ceasefire — sea, air, land, infrastructure — for a minimum of 30 days, and then we can extend that,” Kellogg said in a Fox News interview Tuesday.

[Apparatchik]

[Fledermaus]

Of course, he’s not a Quaker.

[Tell It Right]

Love it!! LOL

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Still waiting for Zelinski to offer a cease-fire.

Waiting.

Waiting

Waiting.

Zelensky offered not once, but twice, a 30 day cease fire. Russian turned it down both times.

[Apparatchik]

He already has, dipstick. For 30 days, not 3. Russia is refusing. You should read more.

Russia dismisses Ukraine’s proposal to extend brief ceasefire to 30 days

[silverleaf]

Maybe Kellogg was hired to play the bad cop

Cause he sure keeps dropping floaters in the punch bowl

Still sayin’ saving over 3,000 soldier and civilian lives in 3 days is being scorned rather cavalierly by some General with no son on the frontlines

[BipolarBob]

I would have theought Kellogs would have said . . "

[Allegra]

[McGruff]

He's a Zelensky butt boy anyways.

[marcusmaximus]

lol!

[DesertRhino]

“A three-day ceasefire is absurd. What the president wants is a permanent, comprehensive ceasefire — sea, air, land, infrastructure — for a minimum of 30 days, and then we can extend that,””

I’m sure Kellogg would like that. So he can start flooding in NATO “peacekeepers”, jets and weapons, etc.

[Who is John Galt?]

... The NATO question came to the fore a final time after the war had been under way for a month. Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, trusted by both sides, served as Putin and Zelensky’s go-between and developed the outline of a ceasefire. Putin dropped his demand for the “disarmament of Ukraine”; Zelensky agreed to drop plans to join NATO. Substantive talks between diplomats from the two countries continued in late March in Belarus and Istanbul: Russia would withdraw from eastern Ukraine; Ukraine would recognize Russia’s possession of Crimea; Ukraine would drop its NATO aspiration and seek security guarantees from individual Western countries.

Zelensky’s advisor, David Arakhamia, later commented, “They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to, as Finland once did, neutrality and committed that we would not join NATO. In fact this was the key point.” The Istanbul negotiations even produced a draft agreement. Zelensky’s aide, Alexey Arestovich, described the negotiations as completely successful: “We opened the champagne bottle.”

But Washington would have none of it. Bennet later explained, “The Americans decided to crush Putin rather than to negotiate.” Shortly thereafter Boris Johnson showed up in Kiev with promises of more weapons and a message from Biden. Horton cites a Ukrainian paper, Ukrainska Pravda: “Putin should be pressured, not negotiated with…. The collective West now felt…that Putin was not really as powerful as previously imagined, and there was a chance to ‘press’ him.”

Following orders, Ukraine abruptly broke off the talks. There are not good sources yet about this American push to throttle an early ceasefire, or, given what we know now about Biden’s condition, who was responsible for it. But Washington decided continuing the war was preferable to a Finlandized Ukraine.

Since then Ukraine and Russia have suffered a million casualties, and Ukraine’s infrastructure may be wrecked for a generation...

The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History

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Small steps are called confidence-building
So far I don’t remember any short ceasefire being successful
The last time the Russians proposed one, the Ukrainians assassinated a Russian General in Moscow on the first day

[Apparatchik]

The last time the Russians proposed one, the Ukrainians assassinated a Russian General in Moscow on the first day

Do you mean the Easter “ceasefire” that Putin declared, which his troops ignored, and which had been over for four days when the Russian general was killed in Moscow on April 25? That one?

Does it hurt to be to be this stupid? Because it’s painful for the rest of us to watch.

[Responsibility2nd]

Are you really trying to tell me that Zelinsky won’t take a 3 day ceasefire? 30 days or nothing?

Ya know.... I can believe this idjut midget is just that stupid.

[Responsibility2nd]

Facts:

Zelensky only wants a ceasefire when his demands are met. Demands that started this war in the first place.

In fact he wants more concessions than when the war started.

1. He still wants NATO acceptance.
2. Now he also wants EU and US troops in Ukraine. As “peacekeepers” Yeah Right.

The Z-Man does not want a ceasefire. Not for 3 days or 30 days.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-conditions-has-zelensky-p-BseSLLxNQjaEaq_J6GNk6Q

[AndyJackson]

He is a quaker and doesn’t believe in war, but he is feeling his oats.

[Secret Agent Man]

General Kellogg said its not part of a balanced breakfast.

Meanwhile Captain Crunch remained stalled at Kyiv...

[struggle]

Best to take what you can get and grow from there

[silverleaf]

Your pain is self -inflicted.
Please skip my comments and stick with war reporting from Keev