President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg to serve as special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine conflict is “a brilliant development,” former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz told Newsmax on Friday.

Trump on Wednesday tapped Kellogg, who has presented the president-elect with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, to serve in the special envoy role. Kellogg was the chief of staff for the White House National Security Council (NSC) during Trump’s first term and national security adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence.

Fleitz, former chief of staff and executive secretary of the NSC under Trump, and retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer appeared on “Wake Up America” to discuss the current state of the Russia-Ukraine war.

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