Trump Envoy blames Zelensky for suspension of aid and Intel

“Very sincere, they brought them themselves,” Kellogg said during a Council for Foreign Relations on Thursday.

He and more than a dozen senators met with Zelensky on the day before his visit to the White House, during which they passed through the day with him, such as “stage management”.

“That’s what you mean. Basically, it will enter. We have a precious metal business. You will sign the business. You will have lunch, you have a press conference, out of stage and you are good to go, ”Kellogg added. “What happened is President Zelensky, cheated on the room last Friday, and I think he was wrongly reading what I said when I was in Kiev.”

Things warmed up to the end of the 40-minute public session between Trump, Zelensky and JD Vice President, which led to the White House to throw Zelensky before he and Trump could complete the long-term agreement that Zelensky traveled to Washington to sign.

“Do not negotiate peace discussions in public. Do not try to challenge the president of the United States in the Oval Office, that you must actually join me and not with the Russians, ”he added. “What happened was two leaders of the nation state who entered a meeting with objectives that were not clearly aligned with each other and there was a public disconnection between the objectives of the two administrations.”

Zelensky called “regrettable” events and said he was willing to complete the agreement. There were Discussions That senior diplomats could meet in Saudi Arabia next week.

Trump’s decision to interrupt military aid and information exchange was meant to send a message to the Ukrainians.

“We are serious about this and you have to understand that we are serious in this regard. And this is one of the ways we made sure they understood, ”he said. “And I think, as a result, they realized that we are serious and have to be serious in this regard.”

Trump and his administration have stated that their intention is to end the war, an accentuated difference to the Biden administration, which provided tens of billions of dollars of military aid and said publicly that they intend to continue this.

“President Trump has been clear that the main objective of the United States in this war is to stop killing and reach both sides on the table and implement a long -term peace structure,” Kellogg added.

Some administration officials, or hopes, have moved around the questions about who is responsible for the Russian-Ukraine conflict, as well as if Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and annexed Crimea and then sought to overthrow the Zelensky government when the army invaded in February 2022.

Zelensky “addressed this involvement with President Trump as an effort to determine the United States to co-sign the US to continuously finance Ukraine, to provide Ukraine with an advantage over Russia,” Kellogg continued. “President Zelensky clearly wanted President Trump to publicly join (Ukraine) with the United States against Russia. Would have denied an objective interlocutor. “

The new American position has apparently put the Trump administration in contradiction with many European countries, which agreed and worked with the previous administration in terms of the defense of Ukraine.

The difference between current and previous administrations is also obvious in their approach to Russia and Putin.

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The Biden administration worked with the European allies in the country to isolate Moscow globally and has greatly avoided communications with it. Comparatively, Trump officials met twice with high Russian diplomats about their first month in power.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who participated in that first meeting, later suggested that there could be “incredible opportunities” for the US and Russia, if I agree to end the war in a “acceptable” way for the administration.