US envoy asserts Russia losing war against Ukraine

At the Yalta European Security Conference in Kyiv this weekend, Keith Kellogg, the United States Special Envoy to Ukraine, delivered a stark assessment of Russia’s ongoing military campaign, unequivocally stating that Russia is losing the war against Ukraine.

“If he [Putin] was winning, he’d be in Kyiv. If he was winning, he’d be west of the Dnipro River. If he was winning, he’d be in Odesa. If he was winning, he’d have changed the government. Russia is in fact losing this war,” Kellogg declared, Caliber.Az reports, citing Ukrainian media.

Kellogg further remarked on the transformation of Russia since the Soviet era, underscoring a fundamental shift in its character. “This is not the Russia, not the Soviet Union, that I knew during the height of the Cold War. This is a different Russia. They talk a lot, but if I were Putin, I would be very worried,” he said.

Addressing concerns over nuclear rhetoric, Kellogg acknowledged Putin’s threats but reminded that other global powers also possess nuclear arsenals. “Putin sometimes frightens with his nuclear arsenal, but the US, the UK, and France are also nuclear powers,” he emphasized.

By Vafa Guliyeva