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The reason he came to the White House was to sign a document that was going to say this is us going forward — it’s not signed,
Kellogg said of Zelensky
But he’s offering is offering to do it,
Brennan saidWe’re going to end this war, and this is one way to make sure you understand we’re serious about it,
Kellogg said ThursdayBy the way this is not something that is unusual. When I was in Kyiv two weeks ago, I was very clear to President Zelensky the outcome if we didn’t have a signed agreement,
Kellogg later addedVery candidly, they brought it on themselves, the Ukrainians,
Kellogg said
That’s a pretty major concession to Russia, to constrain Ukraine’s ability to target and hit Russian forces,
CBS’ Margaret Brennan, who was moderating the conversation with Keith Kellogg at the Council on Foreign Relations, said of the cutoff on intelligence sharingThe best way I can describe it is sort of like hitting a mule with a 2x4 across the nose, you got their attention.” ... Pop Pop, listen to me.”
Asked during the CFR event what the impact of turning off intelligence sharing and military aid will have, Kellogg said ... He gave another example in which he compared talking to Ukraine how his two granddaughters try to get his attention when he strays in a conversation, by grabbing his face and telling himEurope does not have the intelligence capabilities that Ukraine receives from the US,
said Miron,
He said that his unit and many like him right the way along that 1,300km [808 miles] front line in the east and south of Ukraine relied on American intelligence gathering for around 90 percent of the intelligence work that is done,
Stratford saidThe United States can provide Ukraine the coordinates or satellite imagery of where the Russian logistical centres are located, and then Ukraine can use that information to destroy them,
Marina Miron, a postdoctoral researcher at the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London, told Al JazeeraThey [the US] also talked about stopping military aid to Ukraine, which the Ukrainians admit would hit their war efforts.”
Fisher explained
I think we’re going to see movement in very short order,
Waltz said
We have a significant intelligence capability.”
When asked how he knew this, Biden saidI don't think we have discussed it seriously. [From] what I have read, the Americans actually understand the reality."
Asked if he thought the Americans would agree to give occupied Ukrainian land to Russia, he said
We're trying to find a resolution on the battlefield, until the US administration suggest something constructive."
He addedHe knows history and is very different from European leaders,
he addedWe are prepared to negotiate and to talk,
he saidWhat we will need is a new Ukraine as a neutral, non-nuclear state,
he saidAmerica cut a key intel link for alerts at 2 p.m. Kyiv. Before that: targeting data for HIMARS. Ukraine also isn't receiving real-time information for long-range strikes."
The Economist's Oliver Carroll said on Wednesday on X (formerly Twitter
The Kremlin has repeatedly insisted on an end to the provision of all foreign assistance to Ukraine as part of any peace agreement,
ISW said