Trump nominates longtime adviser Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA — 

President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that helium volition nominate General Keith Kellogg to service arsenic adjunct to the president and peculiar envoy for Ukraine and Russia.

Kellogg, a retired Army lieutenant wide who has agelong been Trump’s apical advisor connected defence issues, served arsenic nationalist information advisor to Trump's erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence.

Trump made the announcement connected his Truth Social account, and helium said, “He was with maine close from the beginning! Together, we volition unafraid PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!"

Kellogg's information comes arsenic Russia's penetration of Ukraine enters its 3rd twelvemonth successful February.

Trump has criticized the billions of dollars that the Biden medication has poured into Ukraine. Washington has precocious stepped up weapons shipments and has forgiven billions successful loans provided to Kyiv. The incoming Republican president has said helium could extremity the warfare successful 24 hours, comments that look to suggest helium would property Ukraine to surrender territory that Russia present occupies.

For the America First Policy Institute, 1 of respective groups formed aft Trump near bureau to assistance laic the groundwork for the adjacent Republican administration, Kellogg successful April wrote that “bringing the Russia-Ukraine warfare to a adjacent volition necessitate strong, America First enactment to present a bid woody and instantly extremity the hostilities betwixt the 2 warring parties.”