U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg on Monday dismissed recent Russian claims that Washington and Kyiv are delaying peace talks, calling them “unfounded.”

“Peskov’s recent comments on the state of negotiations are Orwellian. Russian claims that it is the US and Ukraine stalling peace talks are unfounded,” Kellogg wrote on X.

Kellogg also stressed that Donald Trump has been “consistent and adamant about making progress to end the war”:

We urge an immediate ceasefire and a move to trilateral talks to end the war. Russia cannot continue to stall for time while it bombs civilian targets in Ukraine.

Earlier on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that speeding up the negotiations process on Ukraine “naturally depends on the position of the Kyiv regime” as well as “on how effective Washington’s mediation efforts will be going forward.”

“There’s also the real situation on the ground, which cannot be ignored and must be taken into account,” Peskov said, according to state media.