Ukraine is said to have agreed to the core elements of the peace proposal put forward by the Trump administration, with some details still to be settled, a U.S. official confirmed to NewsNation as U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Abu Dhabi for meetings with Russian and Ukrainian officials regarding the proposal.
“The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace plan. There are a few small details that need to be resolved, but they have agreed to a peace deal,” the official said.
Rustem Umerov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, confirmed earlier in a post on social media that the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations had reached a “common understanding” on the “core terms” of the agreement presented in Geneva.
“We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war,” Umerov wrote on X.
“Our delegations reached a common understanding regarding the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva,” he continued. “We are now relying on the support of our European partners for the next steps.”
“We look forward to arranging a visit by the President of Ukraine to the United States as soon as possible in November, in order to finalize the remaining steps and reach an agreement with President Trump,” he added.
The United States has renewed its efforts to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, with delegations from the U.S., Ukraine, and key European allies meeting in Geneva over the weekend to discuss the 28-point plan proposed by the U.S. last week.
The plan has been widely criticized as overly favorable to Russia, but U.S. officials have said the document is not the final proposal and is likely to change.
Late Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “the list of necessary steps to end the war can become workable,” after officials left the Geneva talks on Sunday optimistic about progress. Zelensky said he planned to discuss “sensitive” outstanding issues with Trump.
One of the Ukrainian representatives at Sunday’s talks in Geneva, Oleksandr Bevz, said the number of points in the proposed agreement had been reduced, but denied reports that the U.S. 28-point plan has now become 19 points.
“The document will continue to change. We can confirm that the number was reduced to remove points unrelated to Ukraine, to exclude duplicates, and for editorial reasons,” Bevz told the Associated Press, adding that several points concerning exclusively U.S.–Russia relations were removed.
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