UKRAINE: BBG-US Allies Expect Trump Plan To End War Next Week

Bloomberg reports US allies are expecting President Donald Trump's administration to put forward its plan on how to end the war in Ukraine next week at the high-profile Munich Security Conference. The article claims the president's special representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg is set to put forward the outline. Kellogg confirmed his attendance at the 14-16 Feb event in a post on X earlier today, saying he looks forward "to speaking about [Trump's] goal to end the bloody and costly war in Ukraine. I’ll meet with America’s allies who are ready to work with us."

• Kellogg, along with Fred Fleitz, published a paper in April 2024 for the America First Policy Institute outlining a broad strategy for how to end the conflict that included a temporary loss of Russian-occupied regions for Kyiv in exchange for unspecified security guarantees from the US.
• Most recently, Trump has indicated that gaining supplies of rare earth metals from Ukraine as a condition of continued US support, saying to reporters on 3 Feb “We’re putting in hundreds of billions of dollars. They have great rare earths. And I want security of the rare earth, and they’re willing to do (that),”
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broached the topic with Trump ahead of the November election said “We are open to having all of this developed with our partners — those who are helping us defend our land, pushing the enemy back with their weapons, their presence and sanction packages. And this is absolutely fair,”.