According to Reuters, President-Elect Donald Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, will travel to Kyiv in early January 2025. Kellogg plans to meet with Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv, and his team is also working to arrange meetings with leaders in other European capitals, including Rome, Paris, and London. The trip is still being planned, and the itinerary could change.
The visits are aimed at helping to bring the war to a swift end. The meetings are expected to be focused on gathering information for the incoming Trump administration rather than on active negotiations. The sources say the visits demonstrate Trump’s urgency in ending the war.
No trip to Moscow is currently planned, but Kellogg is open to the possibility if invited. Kellogg’s potential willingness to visit Moscow after Trump’s inauguration would be an unusual move for an American official against the backdrop of a series of sanctions against Russia imposed after its invasion of Ukraine.