A U.S. official informed CBS Information on Tuesday that Ukraine’s authorities had “agreed to a peace deal” brokered by the Trump administration to cease Russia’s almost four-year assault. The American official and Ukraine’s nationwide safety adviser Rustem Umerov mentioned a standard understanding on a proposal had been reached, with particulars nonetheless to be labored out.
Umerov voiced optimism that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may journey to Washington earlier than the top of November to finalize an settlement. CBS Information was first to report on Sunday that U.S. and Ukrainian officers had beforehand mentioned a possible go to to the U.S. this week by Zelenskyy.
“The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal,” the U.S. official informed CBS Information. “There are some minor particulars to be sorted out however they’ve agreed to a peace deal.”
The information got here as U.S. Military Secretary Dan Driscoll was in Abu Dhabi to satisfy with Russian officers, two U.S. officers and two diplomatic sources who weren’t licensed to talk publicly informed CBS Information. A fifth supply with data of the talks additionally confirmed Driscoll’s presence within the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
There was no rapid response from Russia, the invading power, to what was agreed to in Abu Dhabi.
Talking throughout a press briefing earlier on Tuesday, veteran Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov informed reporters that whereas Russia “appreciates the U.S.’ place, which is taking the initiative in resolving the Ukrainian battle,” Moscow “operates professionally, not leaking data earlier than formal agreements are reached … Russia expects the U.S. to tell it of the outcomes of consultations with Ukraine and Europe within the close to future.”
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“Secretary Driscoll met with members of the Russian delegation [Monday night] for a number of hours in Abu Dhabi. He’s scheduled to satisfy with them once more all through the day [Tuesday] to debate the peace course of and quickly transfer the peace negotiations ahead,” a U.S. official informed CBS Information.
It’s not clear who else is within the U.S. delegation in Abu Dhabi. A U.S. official informed CBS Information on Tuesday {that a} Ukrainian delegation was additionally there and has been in touch with Driscoll and his crew.
Umerov mentioned in a social media submit on Tuesday that the nation’s negotiators had “reached a standard understanding on the core phrases” of an settlement mentioned amongst U.S., European and Ukrainian officers in Geneva over the weekend.
The obvious progress in Abu Dhabi comes amid an intensified push by President Trump to safe a ceasefire within the virtually four-year-long Russia-Ukraine warfare.
“We now depend on the assist of our European companions in our additional steps. We sit up for organizing a go to of Ukraine’s President to the U.S. on the earliest appropriate date in November to finish last steps and make a cope with President Trump,” Umerov mentioned in his Tuesday submit on X.
A supply with data informed CBS Information that Driscoll was working in Abu Dhabi off of a revised model of the White Home’s 28-point proposal, following productive negotiations in Geneva.
Over the weekend, Driscoll, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Mr. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and diplomats from Ukraine and European allies attended talks in Geneva, Switzerland. Driscoll’s assembly with Russian officers additionally follows a go to to Ukraine’s capital final week.
U.S. and Ukrainian officers had beforehand mentioned a possible go to to the U.S. this week by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, CBS Information reported on Sunday.
Final week, CBS Information obtained a draft of 1 Trump administration-backed proposal to finish the warfare. The proposed plan included a number of provisions that Zelenskyy has rejected previously, equivalent to a requirement that Ukraine quit its complete Donetsk area — together with components that are not occupied by Russia — and an finish to the nation’s push to affix NATO.
There’s additionally an accompanying doc associated to safety ensures, in accordance with U.S. and Ukrainian officers. Olga Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., informed “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sunday the doc specifies that the U.S. intends to supply “safety assurances” that she mentioned are alongside the traces of Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which commits members to come back to the protection of a NATO state that’s attacked.
On Saturday, a bunch of NATO members and different U.S. allies launched a joint assertion calling the proposed peace plan “a foundation which would require extra work.”
The White Home mentioned in a press release Sunday night time that U.S. and Ukrainian officers had “drafted an up to date and refined peace framework” following the discussions in Geneva. Rubio described one session in Geneva as “very significant” however added that “there’s nonetheless some work left to do, and that is what our groups are going to be doing proper now.”
Mr. Trump has pressed Zelenskyy to achieve a deal by Thanksgiving, although Rubio described that deadline as versatile on Sunday.
A U.S. official informed CBS Information that Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to imagine that he’ll take the Donetsk area of Ukraine someway — both by a negotiated settlement or on the battlefield. The Trump administration’s negotiations in Geneva started from the premise that Putin is right.
Whereas that very same U.S. official declined to offer a U.S. evaluation of whether or not Ukraine is shedding the warfare within the East, the U.S. official mentioned that the trajectory of the preventing factors to Russia taking Donetsk. The official indicated that the Russian progress within the japanese frontline metropolis of Pokrovsk, which is a logistics hub for Ukraine, was not a optimistic signal for Kyiv’s defensive prospects. Russian media usually refers to Pokrovsk because the “gateway” to Ukraine’s industrial Donbas area.
