U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg has been saying crazy things in Kiev. “If Putin was winning, he’d be in Odessa. If he was winning, he’d be west of the Dnipro River. If he was winning, he would have changed the government. Russia is in fact losing this war,” he declared on Sept. 15 during remarks at the 21st Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting, reported the Kyiv Post. Kellogg, either ignorant of or deliberately obfuscating Russia’s actual military objectives, dismissed Russian advances in the Donbass as meaningless. “If you consider advancing moving by meters, not miles, then okay, that’s successful. But at the cost they’re having, it’s enormous,” he said.
In his remarks, Kellogg described a conversation in the Oval Office, in which he said that he was asked by Trump if Russia was winning. “Mr. President, don’t just listen to me,” Kellogg said. “Your Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Dan Kaine is outside. Ask him that question.” Kellogg said that Kaine’s answer was the same: “They’re not winning.”
During a recent discussion in the Oval Office about the supposed primacy of the Russian military, he told the conference: “I said to the people in the room, ‘We’d kick their ass.’ I mean by that, don’t take their statements at face value. They’re not as good as Putin says they are. And I give great credit to the Ukrainian military because they’ve taken them down a couple notches.
“I don’t think anybody should be afraid of the Russian military.... But I don’t believe they’ve got the capacity that they can march towards Berlin or anywhere else,” he added, falsely implying that Russia intends to march to Berlin.
Kellogg had high praise for Ukraine’s use of drone warfare, but apparently without noting that they’re using drones, among other things, to attempt to plug gaps in the front lines, gaps caused by the lack of manpower.
Kellogg’s loyalty to the Kiev regime is such that Volodymyr Zelenskyy, acting as president of Ukraine, has joked, and he did this again on Sept. 12, that he would grant Kellogg Ukrainian citizenship because whenever he’s in town, Russian forces don’t attack.
