US Ukraine envoy Kellogg says no one will impose peace deal on Zelenskyy

Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy, said on February 17 that no one would impose a peace deal on Kyiv and that questions about whether Washington would provide guarantees for any future European peacekeepers would be addressed later, reported from Reuters.

Senior US officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio - but not Kellogg - are due to meet on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks focused on ending the war in Ukraine and on Russia-US ties.

Kellogg, who said he would visit Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv this week, told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels that nobody would impose a deal "on an elected leader of a sovereign nation."

He also reiterated that he was speaking with European allies, who have been pushing to be included in negotiations, but that in his view it was not feasible to have everyone sitting at the table.

European officials have been shocked by the Trump administration’s moves in recent days to court Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago, triggering a barrage of Western sanctions and ostracism.