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The newly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, has chosen a highly decorated retired three-star general as his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
Keith Kellogg, one of the architects of a policy book laying out an “America First” national security agenda for the new administration, will step into the role as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its third year in February.
Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social account, saying, “He was with me from the beginning! Together we will secure peace through strength and make America and the world safe again.”
Kellogg, an 80-year-old retired Army lieutenant general, has long been Trump's top adviser on defense issues. He served as national security adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence, served as chief of staff of the National Security Council and then served as acting national security adviser to Trump.
The White House has sent more than $56 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February 2022 and expects to send billions more before U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office in less than months.
Trump has criticized the billions the Biden administration has poured into Ukraine. The new Republican president has said he can end the war within 24 hours.
As co-chair of the America First Policy Institute's Center for American Security, Kellogg wrote several chapters in the group's policy book.
In April, he wrote that “ending the war between Russia and Ukraine will require strong, America First leadership to reach a peace deal and immediately end hostilities between the two warring sides.”
Trump's proposed national security adviser, Michael Waltz, wrote on social media platform
Kellogg was a character in multiple Trump investigations dating back to his first term. He was among the administration officials who listened to the July 2019 phone call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which Trump urged the Ukrainian leader to pursue investigations into the Bidens.
The call, which Kellogg would later say did not raise any concerns on his part, was at the center of the first of two impeachment trials against Trump, who was acquitted by the Senate both times.
On January 6, 2021, hours before pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol, Kellogg, who was then Pence's national security adviser, listened to a heated call in which Trump told his vice president to object or delay the certification in Congress of to postpone Biden's election. victory.
He later told House investigators that he remembered Trump saying to Pence words to the effect: “You're not strong enough to make the call.”
