U.S. Military Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Abu Dhabi to fulfill with Russian officers, two U.S. officers and two diplomatic sources who weren’t approved to talk publicly advised CBS Information.
“Secretary Driscoll met with members of the Russian delegation [Monday night] for a number of hours in Abu Dhabi. He’s scheduled to fulfill with them once more all through the day [Tuesday] to debate the peace course of and quickly transfer the peace negotiations ahead,” a U.S. official advised CBS Information.
It isn’t clear who else is within the U.S. delegation in Abu Dhabi.
The conferences come amid an intensifying push by President Trump to safe a ceasefire within the virtually four-year-long Russia-Ukraine conflict, with U.S. officers holding discussions with envoys from each nations.
Over the weekend, Driscoll, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Mr. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and diplomats from Ukraine and European allies attended talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
Driscoll’s assembly with Russian officers follows his go to to Ukraine’s capital final week.
It stays unclear how shut the 2 sides are to a deal.
Final week, CBS Information obtained a draft of 1 Trump administration-backed proposal. The proposed plan included a number of provisions that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected previously, together with territorial concessions by Ukraine and an finish to the nation’s push to hitch NATO.
On Saturday, a bunch of NATO members and different U.S. allies launched a joint assertion calling the proposed plan “a foundation which would require further work.”
The White Home mentioned in an announcement Sunday night time that U.S. and Ukrainian officers had “drafted an up to date and refined peace framework” following the discussions in Geneva.
Mr. Trump has pressed Zelenskyy to succeed in a deal by Thanksgiving, although Rubio described that deadline as versatile on Sunday.
