US demands Europe sets out arms and troops support for postwar Ukraine

The United States has asked European capitals to provide detailed proposals on arms, peacekeeping troops and security agreements, they can provide Ukraine as any security guarantee to end its war with Russia.

This week the request was sent capitals, four Western officials presented in the document. It came, as the European leaders demanded that Vladimir Putin be part of the talks that he stated on Wednesday.

“This is [document] “The way we are convinced that we are involved,” said one of the officials.

Washington intends to be sent to governments by US State Department to participate in Europe’s readiness to protect Ki after a peaceful settlement, and the price to participate in talks with Moscow.

The State Department has demanded details of military equipment, which will be able to provide the European capitals and the number of weapons that will be ready to deploy and the officials will be ready.

“Cable presents a number of general issues,” the US official said, adding that it requires “special offers or ideas” what it can be like Europe.

The lawsuit is moving forward from the tour of the European capitals, the Ambassador of Trump to Keke Kellogg, which starts next week in Brussels.

This week, Kellog was not issued by the President as a member of four US teams, who will hold talks with Moscow, leading officials in Europe and Ukraine.

US officials say Kellogg and others provide options to Trump who is the final decision maker.

Kellog said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that the discussions are a “bilateral process”.

Hotspent[US Middle East envoy Stephen Witkoff] It has a Russian belt. I have a Ukrainian and European belt, “he said.

To the question whether Kelllog’s influence weakened, the US official said that his schedule “speaks for himself.”

“He is only a member of the team, as the Speaker of the White House said his diplomacy in Brussels and Kiev at the beginning of his leading role in himself by working under the president,” he said. Official:

The United States noted that it is ready to accommodate Putin’s basic demands, filling cold water in Ukraine’s accession to NATO and join the occupied territory of NATO.

On Saturday, Kellog said that Europeans would not think that the “table” will be during peaceful negotiations, but that he speaks to the European capitals, given their views.

The Western high-ranking official said that the concentration of Kellog to the Western countries could do to guarantee Ukraine’s security, but the exchange of financial concessions could have had little interest to deal with him.

Kremlin’s attention is focused on the numbers that have seen a more direct line to have a trump card and a short command

The US official says that Kellogg was one of the closest advisers to Trump’s national security for almost a decade, and their relations were “known in Washington.”

Russia feels other interlocutors, such as WITKOFF, who released from American prison this week, released from American prison, and National Security Adviser Mike Walci has a more direct line for brief and better.

“If he is the ambassador, he probably had to communicate in Russia and in Ukraine, hire experts about two countries and another.” “Witkoff was slips than he was.”

Another person involved in Russia’s territory, which has seen the role of Kelloggy as a great role in the west, to the West.

“Serious conversations, as you know, are with Moscow, and that’s why you need serious people,” said the man. Kellogh “There is a talk with Ukrainians, talk to Europeans, go to TV.”

Any progress in the negotiations will depend on the further direct contact between Trump and Putin, the man added.

“Trump’s method is to send someone like someone like a little one, then become serious. Only the problem is his partner is that Vladimir Putin, who is a few leagues at his level as a specialist at his level. “

Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman said that the number of negotiators was the internal issue of the United States. “The presidents have expressed political will to build a dialogue, and it is the pre-election of the US President to appoint someone.”

Kellogi’s continued talks with Ukraine and Europe are offered to play an important role in the peace process, two of the Western officials and the former high-ranking Russian official said.

“Kellog is still involved,” said the first Western official. “Some [European] The capitals do not take him seriously, and I think it’s wrong approach. “

The former high-ranking Russian official says that Trump “forgot” to call his negotiators about Kellog, but then he “corrected him” by sending him to Europe. “Maybe there will still be some for him.”