Vance to Meet Driscoll Privately as Pentagon Confirms Abu Dhabi Talks on Ukraine

Overview

• The White House press pool said Vice President J.D. Vance and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll will meet in private at Fort Campbell, with Driscoll absent from public events there.
• The Pentagon confirmed that Driscoll held consultations on Ukraine with Russian representatives in Abu Dhabi on Monday evening and Tuesday.
• Driscoll learned about a week before his Kyiv trip that he would serve as the White House's special representative on the U.S. plan for resolving the conflict.
• On November 20 he delivered Washington's settlement proposal to President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv and later held bilateral follow-up talks with Ukrainian officials in Geneva.
• The Kremlin said it is monitoring reports of the contacts and noted that the U.S. text has not been discussed with Russia in detail even if it could serve as a basis for a final settlement.