Overview
- Washington and Kyiv issued a joint statement saying they drafted an updated 28-point framework in Geneva, describing the talks as highly productive while withholding specifics.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio said negotiators made a “tremendous amount of progress,” signaled U.S. changes based on Ukrainian input, and cautioned that more time is needed.
- Rubio emphasized that any eventual deal must be taken to Moscow, noting that “the Russians get a vote here,” and that discussions would continue into the week.
- Britain, France and Germany circulated a counter‑proposal that raises a proposed cap on Ukraine’s peacetime forces to about 800,000, starts any territory talks from current front lines, and calls for U.S. security guarantees modeled on NATO’s Article 5.
- A political dispute over the plan’s origins persisted after senators said Rubio privately called it a Russian ‘wish list,’ a claim he and the State Department denied, as reports also pointed to an October Miami meeting involving a sanctioned Russian official.