After his two -day visit to Ukraine, the special envoy of President Donald Trump for Russia and Ukraine retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg is at a distance from the seal of a rare mineral agreement with the country under the attack of Russian powerful Vladimir Putin.
“Minerals deal with almost done,” a well -set source told Fox News.
The Ukrainian side made proposals for the text of the agreement and sent it back to the US side, said another source involved in the Fox News talks.
Trump is looking for right to access to the natural resources of Ukraine In exchange for the United States that provided billions of dollars in support of the Eastern European country against the Russian invasion. Trump said on Friday that the mineral agreement was “pretty close”.
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US Special Envoy Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg shake hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenkoy, in the midst of the attack of Russia in Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine, February 20, 2025. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
The White House emphasizes that the agreement would not be a guarantee of a future assistance to the war with Russia.
Ukraine is preoccupied with an existential war. Ukraine’s efforts to counter the Russian occupation are viewed as a test case of free democratic countries to preserve the global order based on the rules.
Kellogg visited the wounded Ukrainian troops and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whom he called “brave leader.” Trump, on the other hand, climbed at Zelenskyy early this week, releasing him as a “dictator without choice”.
Trump went on on Friday that Russia had not attacked Ukraine. Said Fox News worked that Putin had ordered an invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zeleni and Special Envoy of President Donald Trump, General Keith Kellogg, meet in Kiyiva, Ukraine, February 20, 2025. (Maxym Marusenko/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Officer, told Fox News Digital “Trump’s Playing Out of Rare Country Games is now uncertain, because the situation on the battlefield in each case has favored Russia and on the diplomatic front, too many of them at the diplomatic diplomatic The front of many moving parts.
Koffler, who is the author of Putin’s Playbook host of Trump’s Podcast Playbook, warned of defects in the mineral agreement. “The problem is that the great proportion of these deposits in Donbas, Eastern Ukraine, controlled by Russia. And Putin is aware of Trump’s unconventional approaches to business contracts. Therefore, Russian armed forces are now rushing to take over the Shevchenko region, containing the largest European lithium beds. “
Three years ago, Russia sent military forces in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 to illegally absorb an independent nation in Russian territory. Russian forces committed war crimes against Ukrainian nationals, According to the UN experts.
Kellogg visited the wounded Ukrainian troops at the IRPIN military hospital. Caitlin Doornbas to New York Post followed Kellogga on his tour. She reported that Kellogg and Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink visited the hospital on Friday, “where Ukrainian troops with amputations of legs and hands received treatments and prosthetics.”
The New York Post reported that Kellogg said: “The biggest reason I wanted to come here was President Trump said he wanted to stop the murder, and you have to go to a place where you see what the murder looks like – what death looks like death as – and you see The young men who were wounded and fought.
According to the post, “Kellogg visited approximately 20 soldiers, sat with each and conducted individual discussions. One, named Andrii, lost both legs, eye, hearing and suffered a traumatic brain injury.”
President Donald Trump called Zelenskyy “dictator without choice” this week. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Ukrainian soldier named Denis, according to the post, Kellogg asked, “In your opinion, can we trust Russia?
Kellogg replied: “You almost have to look back in history and you have to have the ability to negotiate. All wars end up negotiating, the final victory on the battlefield is graduated from diplomacy, and today’s world is not different.”
The retired general continued, “I think it would be a better question: Can you believe the people you are with to make sure they are with you? Somehow it is like asking a deeper question: Are you with us? And the answer is, yes, we are. “
Kellogg said, “I think nations in the world recognize aggression. Sometimes diplomacy for a soldier is messy, but what the soldier does is that he gives time for politicians and diplomats to come to a conclusion, and that is why I bring the reason why I bring that comment It owes you – the world owes you – because you are basically sacrificed to find diplomats.
The number of deaths of the Ukraine-Russia war is spinning the stomach. According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of dead and wounded – estimated estimates in September – is almost one million.
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The wounded Ukrainian soldier, Denis, Kellogg said that Ukraine must have a “strong army” because he worried that after the negotiations it could be “five, maximum 10 years of peace, and then could return to the next phase of the war,” he reported fast.
Kellogg replied, “Well, I think the intention is not to be next war.”
Kellogg also visited Irpin bridge On Friday, the scene of a strong failure for Russian Jingoism. “The Ukrainian soldiers blew the bridge during the initial Russian invasion 2022, playing a key role in stopping Moscow’s progress towards Kiev,” the Post wrote.
Kellogg said the post on the bridge: “I know how soldiers fight for freedom and people fight for people. I know what I mean. Anyone who fought for freedom understands what they did. (Coming here) was just an opportunity to see him from The places where they fought and give them the respect they deserve – their soldiers – and that is why I wanted to go out to do so.
Kellogg added: “I know how soldiers fight for freedom, I know what it means. Everyone who fought for freedom understands what they did. (Coming here) was just an opportunity to see one of the places where they fought and give them respect for respecting that they deserve – their soldiers.
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The retired general paid tribute to the historic place of soldiers who fought against Russian imperialism.
He noted that “one thing you really can never understand until you see that it is an intangible heart (from soldiers), and what they showed here was a heart. And that is something you can’t measure. And that’s what was really saved by Ukraine. “It is necessary for a weapon, it is not necessarily the fact that the world was against the Russian invasion – it was the fact that the soldiers decided to fight for their country.”
Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, Nana Sajia and Brie Stimson contributed to this report.