Kellogg plans to meet with Zelenskyy at Recovery Conference in Rome – media

 US President Donald Trump's envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg plans to visit Rome this week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and participate in the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) 2025, Kyiv Post writes, citing its own sources familiar with the matter.

“It wasn’t clear whether Kellogg would be joined by any Trump cabinet member or other White House-level official at the forum. The State Department and the White House have not responded to a request for comment on the full US delegation at the URC and the Trump envoy’s planned trip,” the publication reports.

It is noted that Kellogg plans to attend the conference, which will be held on July 10-11, as part of the US delegation, the composition of which is not specified.

President Zelenskyy, along with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and other world leaders, are slated to attend the conference. The conference will bring together government officials, international organizations, financial institutions, business leaders, municipalities, and other stakeholders to discuss how policy, business, and international engagement can shape a sustainable reconstruction, organizers told Kyiv Post.

Several US-based organizations, including the Atlantic Council think-tank, as well as Razom, a Washington-based organization that provides humanitarian aid to the war-torn country, will also take part in this year’s event.

“The URC is an important forum to take stock of these initiatives and spur further commitments to not only assist in building a secure and sustainable future for Ukraine but to make it mutually beneficial for all partners involved, for example through the recently announced U.S.-Ukraine co-production of drones,” Shelby Magid, Deputy Director at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, told Kyiv Post.

“The Ukraine Recovery Conference hasn’t always been a news-making event, but there’s a serious incentive for the Trump administration to get this right and actually commit to helping Ukraine rather than surrender to Putin,” Doug Klain, a policy analyst at Razom, said.