Ukraine should have free rein to strike targets in Russia — Kellogg

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Keith Kellogg, a former U.S. special presidential envoy, told Bloomberg that Ukraine should have full authority to strike military targets inside Russia, arguing an enemy shouldn't get 'sanctuaries' while Moscow hits Ukrainian energy infrastructure. He said Russia isn't winning the war, just dragging it out, and cited estimates of 1.2 to 1.5 million Russian casualties, a toll he says dwarfs Soviet losses in Afghanistan.

Kellogg dismissed Trump's suggestion that Zelenskyy consider stepping aside as 'noise' and predicted no repeat of the February 2025 Oval Office blowup. On the administration's own Russian diesel deal, he said it wouldn't help Putin or move markets, and suggested Moscow is negotiating from weakness, trying to exploit Trump's personal interests and the midterms.

This follows Kellogg's earlier public support for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries, even as Trump had been pressing Kyiv to halt exactly those strikes before announcing the diesel arrangement.

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Here's a man who used to carry the title taking a crowbar to the current policy, in public, on the record. When your own former envoy says the headline deal won't do what you claim and the enemy's casualty math proves you don't need to flinch, that's not noise, that's a pretty loud second opinion. Somebody in that administration ought to be taking notes instead of tweets.

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