Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on September 6, 2024.
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Ukrainian officials are ready to move forward with a US-backed framework for a peace deal that would end Kiev’s war with Russia, multiple outlets reported Tuesday — though key details remain unresolved.
Reports from ABC News And CBS News Both cited an unnamed US official who said the Ukrainians had “agreed” to the deal, while noting that some issues still needed to be ironed out.
It was not clear whether the same US official was quoted in both stories.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Later on Tuesday, Kiev said it was ready to advance the peace process. Reuters reportedCiting a copy of the President’s speech to the Coalition of Allies.
President Donald Trump “I think we’re getting very close to a deal. We’re going to find out … I think we’re making progress,” he said at the White House on Tuesday.
In A Truth social post “There are only a few points of disagreement left,” Trump said Tuesday afternoon.
He directed US special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow and said US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll would “meet with the Ukrainians.”
“I hope to meet with President Zelensky and President Putin soon, but only when a deal to end this war is final or in its final stages,” Trump wrote.
The post comes after US officials met with a Ukrainian delegation in Geneva over the weekend for talks that resulted in significant revisions to Washington’s initial 28-point peace plan.
That plan — which was widely seen as highly favorable to Russia, the aggressor — “has been fine-tuned with additional input from both sides,” Trump acknowledged in a Tuesday post.
“Our delegations reached a common understanding on the main terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva,” said Ukrainian National Security Secretary Rustem Umerov. X said in the post.
But it is not certain whether Russia will agree to the revised peace plan, which has reportedly been narrowed down to 19 points.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any agreement should reflect the agreement reached by Trump and Putin in August. Summit in Alaska.
On Tuesday, officials from Kiev and Moscow report Met with Driscoll in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The Kremlin was tight-lipped about the discussions taking place there, with Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, telling reporters overnight that “we still have nothing to say” and that the Kremlin was “monitoring media reports.”
“We understand that negotiations between the Americans and the Ukrainians are ongoing. We understand that some adjustments are being made to the text that was published; we understand that there have already been changes to the text that we received unofficially earlier, but at some point, maybe there will be a time when we will also establish contacts with the Americans and we will officially receive some information,” Peskov said. “For now, we have no new information.”
The initial, 28-point plan, in which Ukraine did not participate, included controversial terms, such as territorial concessions by Ukraine ceding the eastern Donbass region that is partially occupied by Russian forces.
The original deal also calls for Ukraine to cut its army by 50%, among other proposals that cross Ukraine’s “red lines”.
Trump pressed Ukraine to accept that deal through the US Thanksgiving Day holiday on November 27, prompting Zelensky to declare on Friday that Ukraine faced a difficult choice between “losing its dignity or losing a key partner”.
That deadline appears to have been scrapped. It was unclear how many points of the original deal remained in the latest version of the potential peace deal.