6 March 2925
U.S. special envoy for Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg speaks at a Council on Foreign Relations event in Washington D.C. (Livesteam courtesy of the Council on Foreign Relations). John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, said the US was ready to work with Ukraine again after it paused the sharing of military intelligence and suspended military aid. Speaking to Fox Business, Ratcliffe said that a conciliatory statement released by Zelensky yesterday showed that he was ready to discuss a ceasefire with Putin. “President Zelensky put out a statement that said: ‘I am ready for peace, and I want President Donald Trump’s leadership to bring about that peace,’” Ratcliffe said. “And so I think on the military front and the intelligence front, the pause that allowed that to happen, I think will go away, and I think we’ll work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, as we have, to push back on the aggression that’s there.” Zelensky also wrote to Trump ahead of the US president’s address to a joint session of Congress agreeing to “come to the negotiating table” to strike a peace deal.
