Trump nominates former Pence military aide for new Ukraine post

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a Vietnam War seasoned and retired wide for a imaginable caller station focused connected ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

Trump has created the presumption of peculiar envoy for the Ukraine conflict, according to Reuters, and picked Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg for the post.

Kellogg served arsenic erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence’s nationalist information advisor and was spotted astatine the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago nine connected Tuesday, according to the New York Post.

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""I americium precise pleased to nominate General Keith Kellogg to service arsenic Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia," Trump posted connected his Truth Social platform. "Keith has led a distinguished Military and Business career, including serving successful highly delicate National Security roles successful my archetypal Administration. He was with maine close from the beginning! Together, we volition unafraid PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!"

Three sources acquainted told Reuters Kellogg presented Trump with a program to extremity the conflict, and successful April co-authored a probe papers that presented the thought of utilizing weapons supplied to Ukraine arsenic leverage for armistice negotiations with Russia.

Kellogg is presently the co-chair of the Center for American Security astatine the America First Policy Institute – which is led by respective now-nominees wrong the caller Trump administration.

AFPI’s chairwoman-of-the-board is Education Secretary-designate Linda McMahon and its president is Agriculture Secretary-designate Brooke Rollins.

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Fox News Digital reached retired to Kellogg via AFPI for comment.