Geneva Named Potential Host City for Kyiv-Moscow Talks – Kellogg

US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg said on Tuesday that the next direct negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow might be held in Geneva, Switzerland.

Kellogg, speaking on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, said he has received a “term sheet” from Ukraine regarding its conditions for peace talks and await the same for Russia, where a new round of talks can then commence, “probably in Geneva,” after evaluating prepositions from both sides. 

“When [US] President [Donald] Trump spoke with [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin a little over a week ago, the Russians said they were gonna come up with what they called a memorandum – what I call a ‘term sheet,’” Kellogg said. 

“What a term sheet means is, ‘okay, this is how we get to peace.’ We got that from the Ukrainian side, we need to get that from the Russian side. And then what you do is meld them together,” he added. 

“Once we get their term sheet, or memorandum, then we’ll put it together and then it’s gonna be another meeting, and we believe it’ll probably be in Geneva.” 

However, Kellogg’s plans contradict Putin’s earlier statement that the “memorandum” is to be negotiated with Kyiv directly, without US participation. 

Kellogg’s Tuesday comment also came after Moscow voiced hesitation over the Vatican’s proposal as a mediator, citing religious differences as Russia is largely an Orthodox Christian nation. 

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Kellogg also said Trump’s frustration with Putin is “understandable,” referring to Russia’s recent large-scale aerial strikes across Ukraine for three consecutive nights and Trump’s subsequent response. 

Kellogg added that there is a need to apply continuous pressure on Moscow “to get [Russia] to the table” without specifying if there are plans in place to do so. 

Kellogg reiterated his Sunday comments that Russia’s weekend strikes were “indiscriminate killing” against “women and children.” 

On Monday, two senior Western officials told Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent that Trump is “seriously considering” lifting all Joe Biden-era restrictions on Ukraine’s warfighting following Moscow’s weekend attacks.