Podolyak believes that rescheduling the visit indicates that the new Trump administration is studying intelligence reports before attempting to compel Moscow and Kyiv to negotiate a ceasefire. “This suggests that Trump's transitional administration already has a deep understanding of the nature of this war,

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s special envoy for the war in Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has postponed a trip to Kyiv that had been scheduled for early January, Reuters reported, citing four sources with knowledge of the matter.