US Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg says that only Ukraine will decide whether to accept the terms on which peace with Russia will be achieved, and says that the task of the American side is to understand how to facilitate and provide reliable guarantees for the security of the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state.

This is how he answered journalists' questions in Brussels on Monday about whether the United States will continue to support Ukraine if President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refuses the agreement proposed by Washington to achieve peace.

Kellogg stated that, first and foremost, the decision of the Ukrainians is a Ukrainian decision. He emphasized that Zelenskyy, as the elected leader of a sovereign nation, is the one who will make those decisions, and no one will impose them on him. He added that it is crucial for the people of Ukraine to make that decision.

The special representative stressed that he viewed the format of cooperation with the Ukrainian side as a partnership. He explained that partnership meant working together throughout the process, and that he was not going there with demands, as that was not his role. His role, he said, was to work with President Trump to help end what could be considered a blatant war. Kellogg pointed out the level of destruction in Ukraine, comparing it to the devastation of World War II, describing it as absolutely massive.

According to Kellogg, in this war, "you're losing 600 soldiers a day, not to mention the massive loss of a city." He compared it to the United States losing a major city, such as Denver, Colorado, or Atlanta, Georgia, to highlight the scale of the loss. He pointed out the death, destruction, damage to infrastructure, and civilian casualties, explaining that this was what President Trump was referring to when he said they needed to stop the killing. Kellogg emphasized that President Trump had a very humanitarian viewpoint.

He further explained that their job is to figure out how to facilitate and ensure credible security guarantees so that Ukraine can remain a sovereign state.

In this regard, Kellogg recalled Trump's first speech at the UN General Assembly, where he talked about the sovereignty of nations and the importance of sovereignty. Kellogg mentioned that Trump emphasized how nations fighting for their sovereignty would have a friend in the United States. He reiterated that the United States believes in the sovereignty of nations and that if the Ukrainians are fighting for it, the United States will stand with them.