The American believes that Russia has not achieved its goals in Ukraine, and not only Russia, but also its illegitimate president Vladimir Putin, who previously named the goals of this war, failed.
According to Kellogg, the Kremlin is now looking for the “best possible” way to exit the war, but “time is playing into Kyiv’s hands,” despite Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy.
The journalists' interlocutor noted that the days are getting longer, and in the long term, “this is better for Ukraine than for Russia.”
In January, Kellogg said that Putin has “psychologically reached the point where he simply cannot let go of the situation,” because “if he lets go, he will admit that it was a defeat, that everything he did was a failure.”
Context
Russia has been waging war against Ukraine since 2014, when Crimea was occupied and hostilities began in the Donbass. In February 2022, the Russian army made a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow cited various reasons for its aggression, in particular the need for some kind of “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine.
In 2025, after Donald Trump’s second arrival in the White House, the United States is trying to end the war in Ukraine. At the beginning of 2026, a series of negotiations began in a trilateral format with the participation of representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the United States. They took place in Abu Dhabi 23rd And January 24February 4.
