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U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s spe­cial en­voy Kei­th Kel­logg said in Kyiv on Mon­day that of­fi­cials are “work­ing very, very hard” on ef­forts to end the three-year war be­tween Rus­sia and Ukraine, as a lack of progress fu­els doubts about whether a peace set­tle­ment could be on the hori­zon.

Of­fi­cials are “hop­ing to get to a po­si­tion where, in the near term, we have, with a lack of a bet­ter term, se­cu­ri­ty guar­an­tees” that ad­dress Ukraine’s fears of an­oth­er in­va­sion by Rus­sia in the fu­ture, Kel­logg said.

“That’s a work in progress,” Kel­logg said of the po­ten­tial se­cu­ri­ty guar­an­tees af­ter at­tend­ing Ukraine’s an­nu­al Na­tion­al Prayer Break­fast along with politi­cians, busi­ness lead­ers and diplo­mats.