“Just a few controversial points”Trump announced simultaneous meetings with Russia and Ukraine
The US President wants to further advance his peace plan through parallel negotiations. Special envoy Witkoff was supposed to go to Moscow while talks with the Ukrainian side took place in Washington. Trump himself only wants to get involved at some point.
US President Donald Trump has announced two simultaneous meetings of US representatives with Russia and Ukraine to negotiate the final controversial points in the peace plan. There are only a few points left, Republicans wrote in the Truth Social platform. He ordered two meetings in the hope that everything could be resolved. Trump did not give a specific time for the talks.
The US President wrote that he had instructed the US government’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to meet with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow. At the same time, US Department of Defense negotiator Daniel Driscoll will meet with the Ukrainian side. Trump’s post did not reveal who exactly he was supposed to meet with.
He himself will be kept updated on developments – as will US Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles, Trump wrote. He hopes to meet with Zelensky and Putin soon – “but ONLY when a deal to end this war is FINAL or still in the final stages.” It was not clear from the information whether Trump wanted to meet with them in groups of two or three.
According to both governments, Ukraine had previously agreed to the most important points in the US peace plan. “Our delegations have reached agreement on the main provisions of the agreement negotiated in Geneva,” wrote Rustem Umyerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council, on Facebook.
In the US, several media outlets quoted an unnamed government official as saying: “Ukraine has agreed to a peace agreement.” There are still “a few small details that need to be clarified,” he said, according to ABC News and CBS News. Senior members of the US government reportedly met with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi today.
After the initial US plans became known, criticized by many as a “Russian wish list”, there have been renegotiations and adjustments in recent days. European countries also took part.
