Trump envoy says Ukraine could be split up like Berlin

Anglo-French force would control area west of Dnipro River

- JANE DALTON

Ukraine could be partitioned like Berlin after the Second World War as part of a peace deal, US president Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia has suggested.

Retired lieutenant general Keith Kellogg said in an interview with The Times that UK and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country, forming a “reassurance force”.

Russia’s army could remain in the occupied east, and between the two would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone, said Mr Kellogg, who was previously national security adviser to former vice-president Mike Pence.

The Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro River, which bisects Ukraine from north to south, would “not be provocative at all” to the Kremlin, he told The Times.

Last month, Mr Kellogg was excluded from peace talks because the Kremlin complained that he was “too close” to Kyiv, it was reported.