"Part of my mission is to listen"

In Kyiv, the visit of the special representative of the US President in Ukraine, Keith Kelllog, began. The text is supplemented

When the train with Kelllog approached the Kyiv Poron, several scenarios of the further program were already ready on Bankova ... So I could start a note until the latest news forced the President of Zelensky to unequivocally evaluate the results of the meeting of the US and the Russian Federation and make it clear that the ultimatum is not the proposal to which Kyiv will agree. Moreover, Zelensky transferred his formal visit to Saudi Arabia in advance on February 19, so as not to look like the third sitting aside. It is for nothing that a group of Ukrainian diplomats preparing a visit, as Vice Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko, has already arrived in Riyadh with projects of cooperation in the field of energy, agriculture and infrastructure.

“We want no one to solve anything behind us. It seems to me that this is true. Any country has a bilateral track with other countries - please.

You can discuss anything, but you can’t make decisions without Ukraine how to end the war in Ukraine, ”the Ukrainian Truth quotes the words of the head of state at a press conference in Turkey.

“We [the Crown Prince Muhammad] just contacted and agreed that on March 10 I would be in Saudi Arabia with an official visit. And the United States ... We expect them in Kyiv. "

Keith Kellogs also recently intended to arrive in Kyiv from Warsaw on February 20. But taking into account the circumstances, it turned out: it will have to be met a day earlier. In Brussels, while communicating with reporters, Kelloglog said that he plans to spend three days in Ukraine, although the details are still being clarified.

The day before, at the Munich Security Conference, Vladimir Zelensky said : “I promised Kellogue that I would go to the front with him, if he was ready. It is important for me that he can see the realities. ” The proposal, as follows from an interview with the President of Ukraine, the NBC News television channel, the American diplomat was surprised . As part of the visit of the special representative of the US President, the Ukrainian side wanted to present him a report by the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Alexander Syrsky and give him the opportunity to chat with other military, as well as to show the scale of the destruction of cities after missile strikes.

Zelensky remarked : “I really want no one to impose anything on him ... Keith Kellog, as a military man, has experience. It seems to me that it will be important for him [to understand] that this is another war - he will see what is happening. ” And he added that after the special representative transfers the information received about the realities of the Trump war, “we will be closer to the understanding of what we see at least the first steps. And after I am ready to discuss these steps with President Trump, ”the head of state concluded.

In the evening on the eve of KELLOL's visit, I went to the official Facebook page of the US Embassy in Ukraine. The last entry - the words of Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “We strive to end the war in Ukraine - for the fair world, strong and long -term,” set off comments , the number of which exceeded the hundred. “Liars and blackmailers,” is not the sharpest of them.

At the same time, it is clear: the position of official Kyiv cannot and will not consist in a public expression of resentment and irritation. According to Natalia Gumenyuk, the head of the "Laboratory of Journalism of Public interest", Washington has a lever of influence - deprivation of American assistance. And the thoughts of the Ukrainian authorities are now not about a certain agreement, but about how exactly to defend against the Russian Federation without American support.

Most likely, you will have to wait until the American administration has a period of euphoria, and they will see that the Kremlin played with them.

The Kita Keelloga specialized supporter of Trump was met on Wednesday in the morning at the Kiev railway station, US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink. Judging by the video , he arrived on a special train of three wagons coming outside the schedule - from the national media permission to shoot there only “Suprilna” received. New colors that do not fit into the picture, which was the day before, has not yet been added. KELLOLOL repeated after Trump the thesis about the war, "which would not have begun if Trump was then the president." And he continued: “He understands that people suffer, what destruction. And we want it to end. ”

Only general words about the chance of "hold good potential negotiations" were sounded. And now Keith Kellogo more than transparently defined his status as a gear link: “We will listen. We are ready to provide the necessary. We understand the need for security guarantees. Part of my mission is to listen. Then I will return to the USA, I will talk to President Trump. To be sure that we understand everything correctly. ”