Overview
- Trump said Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will meet with Ukrainian officials as the Moscow visit proceeds.
- Trump wrote that he will be briefed on progress along with Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
- Bloomberg reported that Witkoff phoned a senior Kremlin official last month to propose coordinating on a Ukraine plan and to have Vladimir Putin raise it with Trump.
- According to Bloomberg, that conversation appears to have helped generate a 28-point proposal that the U.S. has urged Ukraine to use as the basis for negotiations.
- Bloomberg also described Witkoff as coming off the Gaza peace deal when he made the outreach to the Kremlin official.