US president's envoy Kellogg says he compared Zelenskyy to Lincoln when talking to Trump
The US President’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has said he tried to explain the importance of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's efforts to achieve peace to Donald Trump.
Source: Keith Kellogg at the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Kellogg said he told Trump, "We haven’t had an American president since Abraham Lincoln that's had to do what President Zelenskyy has done".
Quote: "President Zelenskyy is fighting a war of national survival on his own soil, and that’s what Abraham Lincoln did – fight on your own soil for national survival, for national sovereignty. And when you see that, you have to appreciate the issues that they’re facing right now on the ground."
More details: Kellogg added that Americans sometimes fail to see this because "we don’t put ourselves in their [the Ukrainians’] shoes" and do not understand how "to work our way out of it".
Background:
- Kellogg has previously said that the US recognises the legitimacy of Russia’s concerns about NATO expansion and is open to discussing them.
- He also advised Ukraine not to refuse to negotiate with Russia.
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