US to push Russia to end war in Ukraine through sanctions

The U.S. peculiar envoy to Russia and Ukraine said Thursday the U.S. plans to importantly measurement up unit connected Russia done sanctions to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine.

In an exclusive interrogation with the New York Post, Special Envoy Keith Kellogg said determination is simply a batch of country to summation sanctions connected Russia, peculiarly successful Russia’s vigor sector. He characterized sanctions enforcement connected Russia arsenic “only astir a 3” connected a standard of 1 to 10 connected “how achy the economical unit tin be.”

Kellogg told the Post he understands that some Moscow and Kyiv volition person to marque concessions to extremity what helium called the “industrial-sized” sidesplitting successful the war.

In the interview, Kellogg besides was captious of the attack by the medication of erstwhile President Joe Biden of “supporting Ukraine arsenic agelong arsenic it takes," calling it "a bumper sticker, not a strategy."

Kellogg said the Trump medication is focused connected a "holistic approach" to ending the war, combining enactment for Ukraine with accrued unit connected Russia.

Kellogg’s Chief of Staff Ludovic Hood echoed those sentiments erstwhile helium told the GLOBSEC Transatlantic Forum successful Washington connected Thursday, "Nothing's disconnected the array astatine this stage" arsenic acold arsenic negotiations for a bid deal.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s statesmanlike website reported the U.S. peculiar envoy besides spoke Thursday with Ukraine's caput of the bureau of the president, Andriy Yermak. In a statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s bureau said the 2 discussed Kellogg’s upcoming sojourn to Ukraine, arsenic good arsenic the concern connected the beforehand lines and information issues for Ukrainian civilians.

The connection said the 2 gave “special attention” successful their speech to the upcoming Munich Security Conference, scheduled to statesman successful 1 week.

In a abstracted interrogation with the Associated Press connected Thursday, Yermak stressed the value of “active engagement” betwixt Ukraine and the Trump administration, peculiarly arsenic immoderate bid negotiations.

Yermak emphasized the value of keeping the Trump White House up to day and providing close accusation astir the battlefield situation. He said nonstop connection with U.S. partners is important for establishing a shared position, due to the fact that it is intolerable to signifier immoderate bid plans without Ukraine.

Meanwhile, successful the latest reports from the battlefield, Ukraine’s aerial unit reported Friday – from its Telegram societal media relationship – Russian attacks crossed aggregate Ukrainian regions killed astatine slightest 3 civilians and injured 5 implicit the past 24 hours.

The study said Ukrainian aerial defenses changeable down 81 of 112 Shahed combat drones and decoy drones Russia launched implicit 9 oblasts, oregon regions, portion 31 different drones were mislaid without causing damage.

From his Telegram account, Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian shelling killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 5 others, and 2 high-rise buildings and six backstage houses were damaged.

The determination medication successful Sumy Oblast says 2 radical were killed erstwhile Russian shelling destroyed a two-story flat building. The study said the victims’ bodies were recovered successful the rubble arsenic rescue crews cleared the country and determination are fears much bodies could beryllium found.