Trump’s Ukraine envoy to meet European leaders

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US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg will be meeting European leaders and will report back to the president. Our correspondent Stuart Smith has the details. #Russia #Ukraine #US #Trump

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00:00Keith Kellogg will be meeting with European leaders during his trip and

00:04reporting back to President Donald Trump. What are we expecting the plans to

00:10include and when could we hear them being unveiled by the US? Yes, Keith

00:16Kellogg is the man to watch here. He's the special representative for Ukraine

00:19and Russia and he's been appointed by Donald Trump to try and make progress

00:23where there has been very little even over the last few years. His aim, he says,

00:28is to have a discussion with allies and European leaders and then report back to

00:31the president with what he talks to them about. He says he's not going to make any

00:36public statements or announce what he's been saying. He says that's for the

00:41president to do but perhaps, as has happened in the past, certainly leading

00:45up to the initial discussions right after Russia's invasion in 2022, there

00:49will be parts of that plan that do end up leaking either deliberately or

00:53accidentally. What this could look like might seem at the moment still even

00:59quite impossible. For example, it's been floated by President Macron of France

01:03and Prime Minister Kirstarmann of the UK has suggested he's looking into the

01:07possibility of deploying peacekeepers. That would be the UK and France

01:11deploying peacekeepers as NATO countries in Ukraine, which of course is something

01:16President Putin has spent much of this war trying to avoid. It may look like

01:20Ukraine giving up plans to join NATO but then also having other security

01:26guarantees provided to it from the West. And so all of these ideas would

01:32though inevitably require some concessions including, as has been mooted

01:36in Moscow, the possibility that Russia would have to be allowed to maintain all

01:42its territorial control over those annexed regions including Crimea.

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