Europe won't have a seat at the table for Ukraine peace talks, Donald Trump's Ukraine envoy said, after Washington sent a questionnaire to European capitals to ask what they could contribute to security guarantees for Kyiv, Reuters reports.
Trump shocked European allies this week by calling Russian President Vladimir Putin without consulting them or Kyiv beforehand and declaring an immediate start to peace talks.
Kellogg told a global security conference in Munich that the U.S. would act as an intermediary in the talks, with Ukraine and Russia as the two protagonists.
Asked about the prospects of the Europeans being at the table, Kellogg said: "I'm (from) a school of realism. I think that's not gonna happen."
At a later event at the conference, Kellogg sought to reassure Europeans by declaring this did not mean their interests are not considered, used or developed.
