US envoy praises Zelenskyy after Trump’s censure of the Ukrainian leader

Retired US lieutenant general Keith Kellogg travelled to Kyiv on Wednesday before a planned news conference with Mr Zelenskyy on Thursday was changed at the last minute to a simple photo opportunity

US special envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talk during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. Picture: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 - 15:44

Illia Novikov, Associated Press

US President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war with Russia and praised the Ukrainian leader as an “embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war”.

Retired US lieutenant general Keith Kellogg travelled to Kyiv on Wednesday before a planned news conference with Mr Zelenskyy on Thursday was changed at the last minute to a simple photo opportunity.