KYIV, Ukraine – President Trump is expected to announce decisive action on Russia – including arming Ukraine with powerful new weapons – as a special presidential envoy Kellogg in Kiev on demonstrable the highlight of Moscow’s brutality.
Trump is expected to make an important announcement on Monday about the war of Russia on Ukraine, after he had already announced on Sunday that the US would sell critically necessary patriot air defense systems to the country.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) added on Sunday that the announcement of Monday could include new military help for Ukraine.
“In the coming days you will see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend itself,” said Graham.
“One of the biggest misales that Putin has made is to play Trump. And you just look, in the coming days and weeks there will be a huge effort to get Putin at the table.”
As part of the efforts of the administration to put an end to Putin’s war machine, Kellogg is in Ukraine this week for discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky and other leaders.
“We discussed the path to Peace and what we can do practically together to bring it closer,” Zensky said about a meeting with Kellogg in a post to X start Monday.
“This includes strengthening the air defense of Ukraine, joint production and purchasing of defensive weapons in collaboration with Europe.”
“We hope for the American leadership, because it is clear that Moscow will not stop unless the unreasonable ambitions are curbed by strength.”
A retired army general that served as staff chief of Trump’s first term National Security Council, the 81-year-old Kellogg arrived in Kiev on Monday.
A mail reporter was on board with him when he showed no fear when the train pulled away from a station in Eastern poles, on the way to the heart of the war – and just
“Uh, we’ll be in a big city. Don’t worry,” he told the post, when he was asked if he was nervous about entering Ukraine days after Moscow launched the biggest drone dense, with more than 700 in one night.
It is this loyal leadership and stoicism that binds both the envoy and his boss.
Kellogg said that Trump said in a phone call a day before the trip that the US should be ‘strong’ in the light of Putin’s increasing cruelty and unwillingness to listen to American sensitivity, the envoy said.
“I spoke with the president yesterday morning and I said,” Hey, sir, I’m not afraid, “said the general about his journey.
On Sunday evening, Trump told reporters that he would have Ukraine Patriot buy air defense systems from the US because Putin “talks nicely, but then he bombs everyone in the evening.”
But even the big cities in Ukraine were hammered during this nearly 3.5-year war and especially in the last week and a half.
Moreover, there was a good 12 hours before the train even reached Kyiv. With the air over Ukraine disputes, the only way to the capital across the country is.
That means that you bend along the train tracks that wind through the entire west – with a short stop near LVIV, a large city struck with continuous drone only two days earlier in a barrage with more than 500 drones in one night.
Taking an overnight train meant risking travel during the favorite time of Russia to attack Ukraine. Yet the retired general was not deterred.
“They live with this every day,” he said about Ukrainians who stayed in the country and continue their lives as the greatest war in Europe since the Second World War is raging through their home country.
As the evening progressed, there was a feeling that something can shift in the US game plan to use Putin.
Although Trump Nobel committed the first sixth months of his second term of office to find a diplomatic end of the war, it has become increasingly clear to the White House that the Russian dictator is not looking for peace, officials tell the post.
Putin also made that clear in a phone call with Trump earlier this month, according to sources that are familiar with the call.
While the president largely leaned early for his diplomats and special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff to push Moscow to peace, Trump recently took matters into his own hands, hoping that his long -term relationship with Putin could wave the dictator to put down his weapons.
But when Trump Putin personally asked to agree with a cease-fire-IS that the President Ukraine successfully agreed about four months ago, the Russian president, sources who were familiar with the call, said the post.
Trump has since announced his growing frustration with Putin known for several recent statements – in particular call him for ‘bulls – the American people.
“Many people die and it should end,” he said on July 8. “We get a lot of bulls – thrown at us through Putin if you want to know the truth.”
“He is always very nice, but it turns out to be useless.”
Kellogg recognized the president’s frustration on Sunday evening and told the post that Trump is not because he is “played” or goes along.
“I think he now realizes that Putin is not a business partner,” he said.
For months, Trump has shin that Putin is less than sincere in his dealings with Americans – especially revealing in April that it felt as if Russia ‘tapped’ [him] by.”
But recently his story started to shift.
‘We will send [Ukraine] Patriots, whom they desperately need, because Putin really surprised many people, “Trump said about his plans to help Kyiv’s refusal to obey, call for a ceasefire. “I don’t like it.”
“We are actually going to send them different pieces of very advanced military equipment. They will pay us 100% for that, and that’s how we want it.”
It comes after he described a phone call that he had on July 4 with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy as “strategic” – a call that Zensky described as the “best” he had in recent memory.
Last week he said he should make an announcement on Monday about American efforts to end the war.
On Friday he told a reporter who asked about the recent targeting of Moscow of a Ukrainian maternity hospital that he would take action.
“Oh, I know. You will see things happen,” he shot back to the reporter.
Kellogg said he looked forward to hearing what Trump would say on Monday, but not revealed whether he knew what would come.
“There is much more that we can do,” he said.
In addition to military aid, the US can also focus on the most important source of income from Russia – the export of oil – with a bill in anticipation of the congress that would levy 500% rates for every country that buys it from Moscow.
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