Ukraine Reaches “Common Understanding” on Core Terms of U.S. Peace Plan

A senior Ukrainian official said Tuesday that U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators have reached “a common understanding on the core terms” of a U.S.-brokered peace proposal, while a U.S. official told CBS News that “there are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal.” NBC News noted that Kyiv has not publicly accepted any plan.

Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s national security secretary, said the delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva over the weekend, NBC News, CBS News and CNBC reported. He said Ukraine hopes President Volodymyr Zelenskyy can visit the United States in November to finalize it, NBC and CBS reported. A Trump administration official told CBS News there was no agreement yet on a visit but that a meeting, if it happens in the coming days, could take place at Mar-a-Lago.

The U.S. delegation in Abu Dhabi is led by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who met Russian officials, according to NBC News, CNBC and CBS News. A U.S. military official told CBS News that Driscoll spent hours negotiating with Russian representatives and that “this is moving quick.” A Ukrainian delegation was also in the city and in contact with Mr. Driscoll’s team, a U.S. official said, according to CBS. CBS News’s source said the talks were working from a revised version of the White House’s 28-point proposal.

President Trump wrote on Truth Social that there were “only a few remaining points of disagreement” and that he had directed envoy Steve Witkoff to meet President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, NBC News, CNBC and CBS News reported. He said he hopes to meet Mr. Zelenskyy and Mr. Putin “ONLY when the deal to end this War is FINAL or, in its final stages.” Mr. Trump also said, “I think we’re making progress,” NBC and CNBC reported.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a few details remained that were “delicate, but not insurmountable,” NBC and CBS reported. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said any agreement must reflect the understandings Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin reached at their summit in Alaska, NBC News and CBS News reported. There was no immediate Russian reaction to what was agreed in Abu Dhabi, CBS News said.