The US-Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, on Monday, said no one would impose a peace deal on Kyiv, stating that questions about whether Washington would provide guarantees for any future European peacekeepers would be addressed later.
It was gathered that senior US officials, including Secretary of State, Marco Rubio are due to meet on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks focused on ending the war in Ukraine and on Russia-US ties.
Kellogg, who said he would visit Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv this week, said nobody would impose a deal on an elected leader of a sovereign nation.
He stressed that he was speaking with European allies, who have been pushing to be included in negotiations, adding that it was not feasible to have everyone sitting at the table.
It was gathered that the leaders of France, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands as well as top officials from NATO and the European Union were having an emergency meeting in Paris on Monday.
