"Zones of Control" In Ukraine Floated By Envoy

The latest lead balloon to be floated by the Malignant Fascist's regime for Ukraine is one from envoy Gen. Keith Kellogg, who suggested that "zones of control," manned by troops from the UK and France, could be established following a ceasefire which would give Russia eastern Ukraine. Despite the rejection by the Kremlin of any NATO troops as "peacekeepers" in Ukraine, Kellogg proposed the notion as the latest of MF's capitulation to the Kremlin: From the Times:

"General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.

Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would 'not be provocative at all' to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire. [snip]

Last month Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign secretary, reiterated that the Kremlin would not accept peacekeeping troops from any Nato country “under any conditions”. Ukraine, which unlike Nazi Germany in 1945 has a functioning and pro-western government, may see the comparison with postwar Berlin as tactless, especially as one of Russia’s groundless justifications for its invasion was to 'de-Nazify' the country." (our emphasis)

Why Ukraine would accept the de-facto annexation of eastern Ukraine and reward Russian thug and war criminal Vladimir Putin's brutal aggression is a mystery. At a time when NATO is stepping up it's support for Ukraine's war effort, and Putin's game playing with a ceasefire which he won't agree to, it would seem to be a non-starter, unless Putin's asset the MF applies more pressure to Ukraine.

Kellogg also used the clumsy, inappropriate analogy of the zones of control in post-war Germany, established by the Allies after WW II, as though Ukraine would be treated like a defeated enemy instead of a democratic nation that was invaded by a hostile imperial power. It's also unclear from the article whether either the UK or France has been a party to this latest gambit, but it would be no surprise if they were left out of the loop once again.