U.S. Presidential Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg said in an interview with British daily The Times, which they headlined “Trump Envoy: Ukraine Could Be Divided lLike Postwar Berlin.” TASS quoted The Times on April 12, in which Kellogg said: “You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a U.S. zone,” adding that British and French troops could deploy in Ukraine’s west, forming a “reassurance force” west of the Dnieper River. Kellogg acknowledged that Moscow “might not accept” the proposed zones of control, but he insisted that this would “not be provocative at all” to Russia.” Russian troops would presumably remain in the east of the country, with a demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating them from Ukrainian forces along existing lines of control. Kellogg reiterated that there would be no U.S. troops involved anywhere.
Kellogg, however, objected mightily to The Times accusing them of misrepresenting his views by taking his words out of context. “The Times article misrepresents what I said,” Kellogg wrote on X on Friday evening, April 11. “I was speaking of a post-cease fire resiliency force in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty. In discussions of partitioning, I was referencing areas or zones of responsibility for an allied force (without US troops). I was NOT referring to a partitioning of Ukraine.” [Emphasis in original]
