With efforts ongoing to bring an end to the bloody war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that his country should be given nuclear weapons if it wasn’t guaranteed NATO membership, but that’s not going to happen.
In a strong reaction to what would be a catastrophic development, retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg who was tapped by President Donald J. Trump as his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia said that there are only two chances that the U.S. would agree to allow the Ukrainian regime to have nukes.
“The chance of them getting their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim and none,” Kellogg told Fox News Digital. “Let’s be honest about it, we both know that’s not going to happen.”
Back in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine gave its nuclear arsenal to Russia after being reassured that its independence and national sovereignty would be respected but things turned sour after the U.S.-backed coup in 2014 toppled its elected leader and the subsequent deterioration in relations that led to Russia’s invasion three years ago.
In a recent interview, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine should get its nukes “back” if being given timely membership in NATO isn’t on the table.
“Give us back nuclear arms.”
Ukraine’s President Zelenksy has issued the plea while discussing with Piers Morgan how the war with Russia can end.
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Speaking through an interpreter, the scruffy beggar asked if the process of getting into the alliance “is protracted for years or for decades, then we have an absolutely just question: What will be defending us against this evil, for this whole time on this whole path?”
“Which support package? Which missiles? Will we be given nuclear weapons? Then let them give us nuclear weapons,” Zelenskyy demanded.
But his plea wasn’t convincing to Kellogg.
“Remember, the president said we’re a government of common sense,” he told Fox News Digital. “When somebody says something like that, look at the outcome or the potential. That’s using your common sense.”
It’s unclear what the Trump administration’s view is on the necessary compromises between the two warring neighbors need to be that could bring an end to the wasteful carnage, especially regarding NATO membership, a red line for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“That’s one of the reasons I’m going next week to Europe, to actually see them face-to-face,” Kellogg said. “I can bring that back to the president and say, ‘OK, Mr. President, this is their concern. This is what the issues are.’”
Trump’s envoy will be traveling across the pond for the upcoming Munich Security Conference and is set to meet with other leaders to discuss the war and their stance on negotiations to bring it to a close.
“As you develop the plans to end this carnage, you have to make sure that you’ve got the feel of everybody in play,” he told Fox News Digital. “Once we get to have these face-to-face discussions, then you can really kind of work … on concessions.”
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