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U.S. and Ukraine Report Progress on Slimmer Peace Draft as Europe Counters and Moscow Objects

Geneva talks produced a slimmer draft that defers the hardest issues to leaders.

Overview

  • Washington and Kyiv said their Geneva meetings produced an updated, refined framework, with intensive work to continue in the coming days.
  • Ukrainian officials described a substantially reworked text, reported by some as a 19-point draft, and Volodymyr Zelensky said he will raise the most delicate points directly with President Trump.
  • European allies advanced a sovereignty-first counterproposal that preserves a path to NATO and leaves Ukraine’s force decisions to Kyiv, which the Kremlin dismissed as completely unconstructive.
  • The White House cited only a couple of remaining disagreements and a sense of urgency, while an anonymous AFP source said the U.S. pressed Ukraine to accept the plan, a characterization the administration rejects.
  • Hostilities continued during the diplomacy, with Russian drone strikes igniting fires in Kyiv and injuring residents.