Kyiv/Washington, November 26,2025: Ukrainian officials have agreed to move forward with a U.S.-backed framework for a potential peace deal to end the war with Russia, multiple U.S. media outlets reported Tuesday, though significant details still remain unsettled.
ABC News and CBS News, citing an unnamed U.S. official, said Kyiv had agreed to the draft framework, while noting that several points require further negotiation. It was unclear whether the same official was speaking to both outlets.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later confirmed Kyiv’s readiness to advance the peace process, according to Reuters, citing remarks he delivered to a coalition of allied nations.
At the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “I think we’re getting very close to a deal… I think we’re making progress.” In a Truth Social post later in the day, Trump added that “only a few remaining points of disagreement” were left.
He directed U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to travel to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, and said U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll would meet with Ukrainian officials. Trump added that he hoped to meet both Zelenskyy and Putin “soon,” but only once a deal was final or near final.
His comments followed U.S.–Ukraine talks in Geneva over the weekend, which led to significant revisions to Washington’s earlier 28-point peace proposal — a document widely viewed as heavily favorable to Russia. Trump acknowledged the plan had been “fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides.”
Ukraine’s National Security Secretary Rustem Umerov said on X that the delegations had reached a “common understanding on the core terms” discussed in Geneva.
Despite progress between Washington and Kyiv, it remains uncertain whether Moscow will accept the revised framework, which has reportedly been narrowed from 28 to 19 points.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said any agreement must align with understandings reached between Trump and Putin at their August summit in Alaska.
Officials from Kyiv and Moscow reportedly met U.S. Army Secretary Driscoll on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi. However, the Kremlin offered no substantive comment, with spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying Russia was monitoring developments but had received no official updates.
“We understand adjustments are being made to the text… but for now, we have no new information,” Peskov told reporters.
Ukraine did not participate in drafting the original U.S. proposal, which included territorial concessions requiring Kyiv to hand over the eastern Donbas region — parts of which are under Russian occupation. It also called for Ukraine to reduce its military by 50%, among other provisions crossing Kyiv’s “red lines.”
Trump had urged Ukraine to accept the original plan by Thanksgiving Day, Nov 27. Zelenskyy responded last week that Ukraine faced a stark choice between “losing its dignity or losing a key partner.”
That deadline now appears to have been abandoned, and it remains unclear how many of the contentious provisions remain in the revised framework under discussion.
