US President-elect Donald Trump is expected to soon appoint a Ukrainian peace envoy to lead negotiations on ending the war with Russia, multiple sources told Fox News, Report informs.
"You’re going to see a very senior special envoy, someone with a lot of credibility, who will be given a task to find a resolution, to get to a peace settlement," one of the sources said.
"You’re going to see that in short order."
The job is not expected to be a salaried role - from 2017 to 2019, Kurt Volker had served as special representative to Ukrainian negotiations on a volunteer basis.
Trump has long insisted he could negotiate an end to the war with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Few details have been given about how he would do this.