US Special Representative for the President Keith Kellogg has called on the international community to create a modern-day Marshall Plan for Ukraine.
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He made this statement during a discussion organized by the Yalta European Strategy (YES) initiative and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation on the eve of the URC-2025 Ukraine Recovery Conference.
Kellogg noted that after the end of World War II, the United States initiated the Marshall Plan to rebuild European countries, and believes that a similar approach should be applied to Ukraine.
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“And I think we should do the same for Ukraine,” he said, noting that it would not be an easy task, but an extremely important one.
According to the special representative, the current situation in Ukraine is extremely difficult, and the key step should be a ceasefire.
He highly praised the strategic actions of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team.
Kellogg also shared military-historical parallels, recalling the US Army's withdrawal from Vietnam after losing 68,000 troops.
According to him, today in Ukraine the scale of casualties among the military and civilian population has reached shocking levels, which he called “murder on an industrial scale.”
The American representative paid special attention to the problem of kidnapped Ukrainian children.
According to him, Donald Trump attaches great importance to this issue and insists that it should be an integral part of any negotiations with Russia. The Ukrainian president agreed with this.
“What you do today will be legend tomorrow,” Kellogg said to the Ukrainian servicemen present in the room.
It was previously reported that Volodymyr Zelensky discussed priority areas of defense cooperation during a meeting with Kellogg.
In particular, arms supplies, strengthening air defense and the need to increase sanctions pressure on Russia.
Let us recall that the day before, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a substantive conversation with the US President's Special Representative for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.
The parties discussed the supply of weapons and the strengthening of air defense.
