Some minor details of the deal still need to be ironed out, the official said.
RUSSIAN ATTACK ON UKRAINE LEAVES 25 DEAD IN TERNOPIL AFTER MASSIVE OVERNIGHT STRIKES
A residential building is heavily damaged after a Russian attack on Kiev, Ukraine, on November 25, 2025. (Evgeni Maloletka/AP)
“The talks are going well and we remain optimistic. Secretary Driscoll is in close contact with the White House and the US interagency as these talks progress,” Tolbert said.
Residents see their homes burning after a drone struck a multi-storey residential building during Russia’s nighttime attack in Kiev, Ukraine, on November 25, 2025. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
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The weekend’s diplomatic wave followed the leak of the 28-point peace deal planning to Axioswhich was seen by many European leaders and American lawmakers as largely favorable to Russia.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said on X that the initial The proposal from US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was a “surrender document for Ukraine that would have left the country at the mercy of Russia for decades”.
He said the latest version, developed with the involvement of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and input from Ukrainian and European officials, was a better plan.
‘We must remain standing [the] side of freedom and the rule of law,” Bacon wrote.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll in Kiev on November 20, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Ukraine’s decision to agree to the deal came hours after Russia launched a nighttime attack on Kiev that killed at least six people and wounded 13.
The attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure came as U.S. and Ukrainian officials met in Geneva last weekend to discuss the 28-point peace plan pushed by the Trump administration to end the nearly four-year war.
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Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, cited the Geneva talks in explaining his country’s agreement to key parts of a peace plan.
“We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings in Geneva between the Ukrainian and American delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war,” Umerov wrote on
Umerov added that his country looks forward to Zelenskiy visiting the US “at the earliest appropriate date” to “complete the final steps and conclude a deal with President Trump.”
