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Posted on 05/01/2025 5:12:37 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, has said Washington and Kyiv have reached an agreement on 22 concrete action plans aimed at ending the war with Russia.
Kellogg spoke to Fox News on Tuesday about last week's peace talks in London, which included representatives from the US, Ukraine, and the E3 countries (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany).
“We came up with 22 very specific actions, after very candid and frank and hard discussions with the Ukrainians, we think we're in a very, very good position,” he said.
He admitted that Ukrainian officials "didn't like them all," but "that's normal when you have any negotiations," and that "I think we're in pretty good shape with them."
“When you look at everything the Ukrainians are willing to work with, now it's over to the Russians, over to Putin. We've got one side. Now you need to come up the other side. And I think we're close,” he added.
Kellogg dismisses Russia's ceasefire as ‘Absurd’
Kellogg criticized Russia's three-day ceasefire earlier this month, calling it "absurd," and reiterated Trump's call for a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire agreement.
He argued that Russia is not winning a portion of the war, claiming, "Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half."
“Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half. They haven't taken the city of Kyiv, the capital. They haven't pushed west of the Dnieper River, which is a major obstacle. They haven't taken Odessa. They've lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers. And they haven't really moved anything.”
“Ukrainians are fighting on their own soil. They're fighting hard,” he added.
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Let Putin have whatever he can take and keep. The Eurofags can define their own boundaries.
“Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half.”
The Russians are simply trying to kill off Ukrainian warriors defending front lines as they have learned that Russian armed forces typically capture just rubble and peeved homeless locals.
The Russians think that if enough Ukrainian warriors are killed, Ukraine will want to make peace. Such Russian thinking may be defective as Zelensky and Pentagon generals are prepared to fight to the third last Ukrainian adult that can walk in a trench.
Kellogg also mentioned growing European support for Ukraine, saying a new "resiliency force" led by the UK and France, but excluding US troops, is being planned.Let's plan to make a plan about 22 plans and then plan to give a news conference about our plans, without revealing what those plans are.
If you're among the Turkish media, then you plan to release an article about plans which was published by FOX News, and plan to call this "reporting" as the Anadolu Agency planned to report on the FOX News report about plans.
As to the details of those plans, I plan to read about that later, when someone plans to report more details. Those plans will be "resilient" according to France and Britain. Exciting!
Your Putin screwed up by not accepting President Trump’s Easter ceasefire deal.
Some people here might be interested in this:
https://comptroller.defense.gov/Budget-Execution/ReprogrammingUkraine/
A glance indicates they were done by the Biden administration.
Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (current conflict, 2022 – present)
Research Briefing
Published Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9847/
A timeline covering events during the prior eight years is available in Commons Library research briefing CBP-9476, Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (2014 – eve of 2022 invasion).
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9476/
This 39-page document is quite detailed:
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9476/CBP-9476.pdf
I have just glanced at it.
“ceasefire”
The Russians are looking for a long-term deal.
The Russians know from the Reagan years that the US Military-Industrial Complex is superior in the long-term over the Russian MIC.
The Russians are not about to let Trump successfully stall for time for Ukraine.
It’s a long-term deal, or Russian forces in Odessa before 2027.
My President Trump is figuring out that your Zelensky is about as corrupt as Putin, in the same way that your Turkish source stole FOX News' report to publish as its own.
Want to buy a bridge to Crimea?
I went to the article, but I didn’t see the 22 items described.
If someone can provide details, please do so as my 30-day high-speed bandwidth has been used up.
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I went to the article, but I didn’t see the 22 items described.
The war almost broke out almost a year earlier:
“April 14, 2021”
This was one of Trump’ worst hires. The guy is a neocon. Always has been.
“A good way to scuttle negotiations is to make specifics public before they are agreed to.”
I read something similar the Russian foreign minister said the other day.
I tend to believe everything proposed should be defendable to both the other side and to the public.
This is what we want, this is why we want it, and this is why we don’t want to settle for less.
Absolute nonsense...reminds me of Gen. Kellogg.
We had to pass a budget peace deal before we knew what was in it.
Russian Translator: Sir, General Katukov would like to know whether you will join him, to drink to the surrender of Germany.
Patton: My compliments to the General; please inform him that I do not care to drink with him, or any other Russian son of a bitch.
Russian Translator: [aghast] Sir, I-I cannot tell the General that!
Patton: You tell him that. Tell him word for word.
Russian Translator: [nervously, in Russian] He says he will not drink with you, or any other Russian son of a bitch.
General Katukov: [angrily, in Russian] Tell him he is a son of a bitch, too! Now!
Russian Translator: [nervously] The General says, he thinks that you are a son of a bitch, too!
[Patton starts laughing]
Patton: Okay. I’ll drink to that. One son of a bitch to another!
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patton_(film)
I wrote:
just rubble and peeved homeless locals
You wrote:
“Absolute nonsense”
Modern war is very destructive.
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