{"id":1323020,"date":"2025-11-20T13:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bad-news-for-kyiv-kellogg-to-resign-as-trumps-special-envoy-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:35:34","slug":"bad-news-for-kyiv-kellogg-to-resign-as-trumps-special-envoy-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/bad-news-for-kyiv-kellogg-to-resign-as-trumps-special-envoy-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news for Kyiv: Kellogg to resign as Trump&#8217;s special envoy for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In January 2026, Trump&#8217;s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, will leave his post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/trumps-ukraine-envoy-kellogg-leave-post-january-sources-say-2025-11-19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to a Reuters report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has already informed colleagues of his intention to leave the administration. According to one of the interlocutors, Kellogg never aspired to hold office for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA special presidential envoy is a temporary appointment, and in theory such envoys must be confirmed by the Senate to remain in their positions for more than 360 days,\u201d the news agency explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Kellogg, given current US law, January would be a natural point to leave office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As noted, such a decision would be bad news for Kyiv, as the special envoy remained a more loyal supporter of Ukraine than other administration officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kellogg has strongly condemned Russia&#8217;s attacks and has often clashed with another US special representative, Steve Witkoff, who repeats some pro-Russian theses and advocates a unilateral exchange of territories as part of a peace deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dayte-yomu-palets-vidkusyt-usiu-ruku-kelloh-vkazav-na-plany-putina-i-zahrozu-dlia-nato\/\">Keith Kellogg previously criticized Kremlin leader Putin<\/a> , comparing his actions to Hitler&#8217;s actions in 1939.<\/p>\n<p> As is known, Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-nahorodyv-kelloha-ordenom-za-zasluhy\/\">Zelenskyy awarded US President&#8217;s Special Representative Keith Kellogg with the Order of Merit, 1st degree<\/a> .<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2026, Trump&#8217;s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, will leave his post, according to a Reuters report. He has already informed colleagues of his intention to leave the administration. According to one of the interlocutors, Kellogg never aspired to hold office for a long time. \u201cA special presidential envoy is a temporary appointment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1248686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1323020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}