Kellogg proposes “peace plan” partitioning Ukraine like postwar Berlin

He said this in an interview with The Times.

“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War II, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a U.S. zone,” he said.

According to him, French and British troops could take over the control zones in western Ukraine as part of a “pacification force,” followed by Ukrainian forces and a demilitarized zone. At the same time, the Russian army would remain in the occupied east.

According to Kellogg, the Anglo-French forces west of the Dnipro River “will not be provocative at all” for Russia. He said that Ukraine has enough territory to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire. However, the US will not provide any ground troops.

Later, Kellogg clarified his words. 

“I was referencing areas or zones of responsibility for an allied force (without U.S. troops). I was NOT referring to a partitioning of Ukraine,” he wrote on the social network X. 

• On April 2, Kellogg said that the United States aims to achieve a complete ceasefire, adding that neither side will get everything it wants.