{"id":787,"date":"2025-06-14T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:59:13","slug":"trumps-envoy-outlines-plan-for-ukraine-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/trumps-envoy-outlines-plan-for-ukraine-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s envoy outlines plan for Ukraine peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Kellogg has said Washington now understands what a full ceasefire \u201ccould and should\u201d look like after reviewing both sides\u2019 memorandums<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy, has said peace in the Ukraine conflict is within reach. He has suggested exploring how terms outlined by Kiev and Moscow might align in a final agreement to end the fighting.<\/p>\n

During the latest round of talks earlier this month, Russia and Ukraine exchanged draft memorandums on a roadmap toward an eventual peace deal. Moscow\u2019s version requires Ukraine to recognize the loss of five regions that joined Russia in referendums, withdraw its forces from those territories, commit to neutrality, and limit its military capabilities. Ukraine has dismissed the proposal, calling it \u201can ultimatum,\u201d<\/em> rejected any territorial concessions as well as neutrality, and demanded a full, unconditional 30-day ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Kellogg, who was tasked with working on the memorandums exchanged between Ukraine and Russia, explained that his team has developed what they refer to as \u201cterm sheets\u201d<\/em> \u2013 documents outlining a potential end state for peace. According to him, they first reviewed the Ukrainian term sheet, followed by the Russian document. The memorandums were then combined to explore how their contents could align in a final agreement, he added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe put them together. And we said, OK. How can you meld these two documents together to get to an end state?\u201d<\/em> he said during a forum organized by the German Marshall Fund in Brussels on Thursday. According to Kellogg, they now feel quite comfortable with the direction of the discussions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know what an end state looks like, could look like, should look like,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding, \u201cif we could just get to that point, we think it\u2019s winnable. And that\u2019s where you really want to get to.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

When asked about what specifically the \u201cend state\u201d<\/em> might entail, Kellogg referred to the idea of a comprehensive ceasefire. He clarified that such a deal would apply to positions held on the ground \u2013 essentially, where forces were physically located at that time.<\/p>\n

The May and June rounds marked the first direct Russia-Ukraine talks since 2022, when Kiev withdrew. Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia later said the pullout followed advice from then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to sign a deal \u2013 a claim Johnson denies.<\/p>\n

Kiev returned to talks under pressure from Trump, in what Moscow called a long-overdue step. The Trump administration insists it\u2019s seeking a settlement to the Ukraine conflict that will last, not Kiev\u2019s surrender or Russia\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Kellogg has said Washington now understands what a full ceasefire \u201ccould and should\u201d look like after reviewing both sides\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}