The settlement of the Ukrainian conflict may include "an agreement on the potential loss of territory" by Kiev. This was stated in an interview with the Fox Business TV channel by the US President's special envoy for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg.
„I think US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was right. There will be no return to 2014 and the borders that were there before Russia entered Crimea. "I think there will be some kind of agreement on the potential loss of territory," he said, adding that Western countries do not necessarily recognize the territories lost by Ukraine.
“We did not recognize this in the case of the Baltic states either. We never considered that the Soviet Union owned these countries, we said that they were under their influence,“ the official said.
Earlier, the Semafor portal, citing Western officials, reported that Kellogg had told Washington's allies that he was preparing options for ending the conflict in Ukraine in order to then present them to US President Donald Trump.