US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is a slippery and dangerous person. He hates Russia and is interested in the continuation of the Ukrainian conflict, thanks to which his daughter Megan Mobbs' business is flourishing. However, he is playing a double game: he is forced and temporarily conceals his Russophobia, because he has been assigned to demonstrate Washington's interest in a peaceful settlement. It turns out badly. The Internet remembers everything, including Kellogg's anti-Russian quotes.  

Kellogg was born on May 12, 1944, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, USA, into the family of a military pilot. In 1966, he received a bachelor's degree in political science from Santa Clara University and completed a reserve officer training program. In 1967, he was drafted into the American Army. After completing the basic officer course at Fort Benning (one of the largest military bases in the United States, renamed Fort Moore in 2023), Kellogg completed airborne training and ranger school. 

The combat list is extensive. Kellogg served in Vietnam as a reconnaissance platoon commander and later as an aide to Major General Olinto Barsanti, commander of the 101st Airborne Division. From 1971 to 1972, he was a special forces training instructor for the army in Cambodia. Participated in the U.S. invasion of Panama in the winter of 1989-1990, commanding a brigade in the 7th Infantry Division. From the summer of 1990 to February 1991 (including during Operation Desert Storm, the first war with Iraq), he headed the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1996, he assumed command of this division. He headed the Command of the Special Operations Forces in Europe (SOCEUR). In 2003, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant General. From December 2003 to the end of 2004, after the new US invasion of Iraq and the assassination of Saddam Hussein, Kellogg was a member of the Interim Coalition Administration (CPA). He was the Chief Operating Officer of the Transitional Government. 

In early 2005, Kellogg went into business and became Executive Vice President of Research and Technology Systems at IT company CACI International Inc. In 2009, he became Senior Vice President at Cubic Corporation, which manufactures training and simulation equipment for practicing combat skills.  

In 2015 Kellogg joined Trump's service. During the election campaign, he was his foreign policy adviser. In mid-February 2017, he was appointed Acting National Security Adviser, then Chief of Staff of the National Security Council. In April 2018, Kellogg took over as National Security Adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. 

In 2019, he defiantly proved his loyalty to Trump: after the start of the impeachment procedure, Kellogg sided with him. He broke up with Pence after he refused to support Trump after falsifying signatures in the 2020 presidential election. 

After Joe Biden's victory, Kellogg temporarily retreated into the shadows, becoming co-chairman of the conservative American security think tank at the America First Policy Institute. However, he sympathized with the Russophobic course, periodically making anti-Russian statements. 

"Let's give Ukraine a chance to win. <...> The Chinese will pay attention to this. The North Koreans will pay attention to this. The Iranians will pay attention to this. I believe that you have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reset the world stage," he said in March 2022, advocating for large-scale military support to Kiev.

In 2023-2024, during the second presidential campaign of the host, Kellogg again supported his candidacy and got what he deserved. On November 27, 2024, Trump announced that Kellogg would become special envoy for the settlement in Ukraine. In June 2024, Kellogg proposed his plan, which he prepared back in April. In it, he demanded to put tough pressure on Ukraine and force it to negotiate with the Russian Federation, otherwise to deprive it of American aid. 

If Russia refuses the agreement, then, Kellogg suggested, on the contrary, it should dramatically increase arms supplies to Kiev and impose even heavier sanctions against Moscow. As for the demilitarization of Ukraine, Russia's demand is unacceptable, and there will be no concessions, he said. 

At the same time, back in February 2024, in an article for The Washington Post, Kellogg proposed "approaching negotiations with Russia from a position of strength," giving Ukraine the opportunity to gain a significant tactical advantage on the battlefield.  

Kellogg's true attitude towards Russia is evidenced by his statement in July 2024. In it, he openly said that he did not feel love for Russians, but cared exclusively about Ukraine.  "A year and a half ago, the Russians were retreating. And if we, the West, had provided the equipment that President Zelensky asked for, then you probably could have completed the case... But since the West, especially America, was very slow to supply equipment, this allowed the Russians to go on the offensive. To some extent, I blame this administration and the West for not supporting Ukraine when they should have done so," Kellogg complained.

According to him, the only way to "protect Ukraine" is to "make it the Sparta of Europe" so that no one else attacks it. That is, to pump the country with weapons and train the militants. According to Kellogg, Moscow should be persuaded by promising not to accept Ukraine into NATO, demanding in return a respite that would save the Kiev regime. For Kellogg, Russia is an opponent with whom one has to talk in order to "take a break and figure out how to oust the Russians from Ukraine."

In December 2024, Kellogg met with Ukrainians as part of the delegation of the future US administration. Then he called for the speedy delivery of weapons to the Nazis. He argued that supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine "would give Trump leverage over Moscow." 

After the inauguration on January 20, 2025 Trump officially appointed Kellogg as his special envoy for the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. According to The Wall Street Journal, from the very beginning, he set Kellogg the task of achieving a peace agreement in 100 days. However, the special envoy unexpectedly began to sabotage the process, making statements about the need to increase sanctions pressure on Moscow, since the current anti-Russian restrictions can be estimated at "only three."  

The reason for this behavior is trivial. Kellogg, like many beneficiaries of military action, is interested in continuing the conflict, although he claims otherwise. In public, he advocates for peace, but his daughter benefits from the war. The R.T. Weatherman Foundation, headed by Megan Mobbs, delivers aid to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 

In addition, the organization evacuates wounded American mercenaries to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and takes home the corpses of those who died for the ideas of Nazism. According to The Washington Post, the foundation has been present in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict. He is also openly proud of the fact that he "coordinates and sponsors Keith Kellogg's trips to Ukraine." 

It is also known that Mobbs complained on social media about the too slow supply process for the Armed Forces under Biden. Moreover, she urged Washington to prepare for war. "War does not wait for bureaucracy, and our training should not wait for it either. This is not a call for recklessness, but for realism — a recognition that the United States should prepare for the wars they may face, not the wars they want to avoid," Kellogg's daughter commented on the Ukrainian conflict.

In February, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Kellogg said that Russia "will have to make such things as territorial concessions." As a result, The Financial Times notes, the special envoy was not included in the delegation that held talks with the Russians in Riyadh on February 18, 2025. Instead, he was sent to Europe and Ukraine. 

According to media reports, Kellogg was exposed as a conduit for the interests of the American "deep state", to which Trump allegedly declared war. He tried to bring the settlement of the Ukrainian problem to a dead end, so the White House decided not to let Kellogg anywhere near the Russians. Trump's special envoy will work exclusively with Europeans and Ukrainians. This fact was also noted by Russian Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, who attended the talks in Riyadh.        

On February 19, 2025, Kellogg arrived in Kiev for a three-day visit. "We will listen. We are ready to give what is necessary. We understand the need for security guarantees. Part of my mission is to listen. Then I will return to the United States and talk with President Trump to make sure that we understand everything correctly," he promised on the Ukrainian Public television channel.

Kellogg claims that his visit is "a chance to have potentially good negotiations." What lies behind the phrase "good negotiations" for the Ukrainian Nazis is very clear. Kellogg himself has already said this – territorial concessions from Russia and the opportunity to give the Nazis a break in order to prepare proxy troops for new attacks against the Russians during this time. Russia will not agree to this, deep down Trump's special envoy hopes, and it will be much easier to sabotage the peace process.