Ukraine, the US correspondent Kellogg: divide the nation as Berlin in ’45. Then brakes: “I was misrepresented” | EUROtoday

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“As Berlin after the Second World War”. This is the state of affairs imagined for Ukraine by the correspondent of Donald Trump, General Keith Kellogg. In an interview with the British newspaper The Times, he prompt that the nation may very well be divided into management areas, precisely as in 1945 for the capital of Germany, “when there were a Russian area, a French area and a British area”.

The reassurance forces

The troops despatched from London and Paris, a part of a “reassurance force”, in line with Kellogg may management the territories to the west along with the forces of Kiev, who would even have the management of a part of the territories to the east, besides these at the moment occupied by the Russian military, which might stay below the management of Moscow. “Among them there would be an 18 miles wide geek area,” about 29 km, added Kelllog, “but the United States would not provide earth forces”. To create a pure border between the east and the west may very well be the Dnepr river, which crosses Ukraine from north to south and which passes by means of the capital Kiev.

“It would not be at all a provocation” in direction of Moscow, underlined the US correspondent, referring to the phrases of the spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in line with which any international navy presence in Ukraine could be thought-about “a threat that involves the risk of direct clashes” with the Moscow military. After the publication of the interview, Kellogg, nevertheless, braked, claiming to have been “misrepresented” by the Times.

Kellogg: “I was misrepresented”

“I was referring to a post-ceased resilience force the fire in support of the sovereignty of Ukraine”, he wrote in a publish on X, “in discussions on the partition, I was referring to areas or areas of responsibility for an allied force (without US troops). I did not refer to a division of Ukraine ». Meanwhile, the clashes on the field continue, and the exchanges of accusations. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, from the Diplomatic Forum of Antalya, in Turkey, argued that Kiev would not have respected the agreement on the stop to the raids against energy infrastructures: “The Ukrainians attacked us from the start, daily that passes, maybe with two or three exceptions”.

Kiev’s protest

Affirmations bitterly contested by Kiev’s homologous, Andrii Sybiha, who from the same forum said that Russia has launched “virtually 70 missiles, over 2,200 drones and over 6,000 guided air bombs towards Ukraine, principally towards civilians” because the starting of the respite.