US President Donald Trump’s appointed envoy for Russia-Ukraine negotiations, Keith Kellogg, has been sidelined from critical dialogues aimed at resolving the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, NBC News reports. According to a Russian official cited by the outlet, Kellogg’s absence from the US-Russia summit in Riyadh on February 18 is attributed to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s perception of Kellogg as overly favorable to Ukraine. Confirmed as Trump’s envoy in January, the 80-year-old Kellogg also missed a crucial meeting on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia involving US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Ukrainian representatives.
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