Overview
- The Kremlin said U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow next week for talks with Vladimir Putin on the U.S.-led peace blueprint.
- After emergency talks in Geneva with Ukrainian and European delegations, the initial 28-point plan—seen as highly favorable to Moscow—was revised in ways a source described as significantly better for Kyiv.
- Bloomberg published an Oct. 14 recording of Witkoff coaching Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov on presenting proposals to President Trump, including mentioning territorial concessions such as Donetsk.
- Reuters and other outlets reported the U.S. document drew on a Russian-drafted paper circulated in October, following contacts involving Kirill Dmitriev and U.S. interlocutors in Miami.
- European governments resisted U.S. ideas on using roughly €190 billion in frozen Russian assets and rejected core Russian demands in their own counter-proposal, as Russian strikes continued to hit Ukrainian cities.