According to a source familiar with the talks, US President Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, advised against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with Trump in the Oval Office. Kellogg believed that the relationship between the two countries needed to be strengthened before such a meeting could take place.
Zelensky’s team, on the other hand, was pushing for the White House meeting to happen. The source revealed that during discussions in Kyiv, Kellogg and Zelensky had reached an agreement with one item still pending finalization.
