A solution to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine mightband inspire to the German division model in the second post -war period. This is what suggested by Keith Kelloggcorrespondent for the White House in Kiev, in an interview with the Times. The former councilor for national security under the Trump administration – today less central figure in the diplomatic team than Steve Witkoff, a negotiator active in the talks with the Kremlin – hypothesized a post -war structure inspired by that adopted for Berlin in 1945.
According to Kellogg, the proposal would include a subdivision in “Areas of responsibility” entrusted to different western countries, including France and the United Kingdom, separated by a demilitarized band. “A Russian area, a French and a British area – said – with Ukrainian forces deployed between them, but without the direct involvement of US troops”. Western intervention, he added, would take on the form of a “Reassurance force” Lived by the west of the Dnipro river, while Moscow would maintain its troops to Est. Kellogg has described a line of demarcation about 30 kilometers wide – 15 for each part – which would allow to avoid a military escalation with Russia, while maintaining a western garrison that, according to him, would not represent a “direct provocation” for the Kremlin.
The reactions to the proposal did not wait. Many have read a real division of Ukraine into the general words. Kellogg, through a post published on X, tried to damn the controversiesspecifying that his words would be “passed away”. “I was talking about a post-ceased resilience force to support Ukrainian sovereignty-he wrote-. The ‘zones’ to which I referred were intended as operational areas for the allied forces, not as a territorial division of the country”. But doubts remain and could not be differently
Moscow’s reply lasts, who rejected the idea. Rodion MiroshnikAmbassador of the Kremlin, he called the possibility of a demilitarized area “dangerous”, claiming that such a solution could lead to a “freezing of conflict”, prelude to a possible new escalation. “Keeping western influence in a militarized area without a real demilitization raises serious concerns about the future,” he said.
Kellogg’s proposal comes in a moment of strong diplomatic stalemate. The interviews for a resolution of the conflict seem to have run over, while the Russian forces continue their advance in the East of the country. Former president Donald Trump – actively involved in the republican negotiating strategy – has been said “frustrated” for the lack of signals by President Vladimir Putin, who has so far rejected any concrete hypothesis of ceased fire. Recall that yesterday the correspondent of the Tycoon Witkoff According to Reuters, he said that “the fastest way” to reach a ceased in Ukraine would be “to” support a strategy that would give Russia the property of the four Ukrainian Eastern regions that Moscow attempted to annex in 2022 “.
In the meantime, even the so -called “Coalition of the willing” Proposed by the United Kingdom, it appears paralyzed: no concrete initiative has been undertaken so far, and Europe continues to remain on the edge of the direct negotiations between Washington and Moscow, struggling to carve out a central role in the diplomatic match on the future of Ukraine.
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