Overview
- U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to deliver the administration’s peace framework, with the U.S. envoy in Ukraine citing a rapid pace of diplomacy and an aggressive timeline.
- The Guardian, cited by Ukrinform, reported that Trump has named Driscoll a special representative to advance the plan, a claim that has not been confirmed by U.S. officials.
- Planning calls for Driscoll to brief NATO partners in Europe and to seek a meeting with Russian defense minister Andrey Belousov, according to a defense official.
- Ukrinform also reported that a group of senior U.S. military officials intends to travel to Moscow to discuss details of the U.S. proposal.
- Axios has described the initiative as a 28-point plan spanning peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, European security, and future U.S. relations with Russia and Ukraine, as internal reporting portrays Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as sidelined even as the White House rejects talk of discord.