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Ukraine has agreed to a peace deal that would end the war with Russia, a US official told Fox News.
Some minor details of the agreement still remain to be resolved, the official said.
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A residential building is heavily damaged after a Russian attack on Kiev, Ukraine, on November 25, 2025. (Evgeny Maloletka/AP)
Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Tolbert, a spokesman for US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, told Fox News that Driscoll and his team met with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the framework of the Ukraine peace deal.
“Negotiations are going well and we remain optimistic. Secretary Driscoll is coordinating closely with the White House and U.S. interagency agencies as negotiations move forward,” Tolbert said.
Residents watch their homes burn after a drone strike on a multi-storey residential building during Russia’s nighttime offensive in Kiev, Ukraine on November 25, 2025. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
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A US official told Fox News that the Ukrainian delegation was also in Abu Dhabi and in contact with Driscoll and his team.
There was a diplomatic stir over the weekend after Axios leaked a 28-point peace plan that many European leaders and US lawmakers saw as largely favorable to Russia.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said initial on x US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal was “a surrender document for Ukraine that would have left it at the mercy of Russia for decades to come.”
He said the latest version, developed with the participation of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and input from Ukrainian and European officials, was a better plan.
“We must stand firm [the] The cause of liberty and the rule of law,” Bacon wrote.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in Kiev on November 20, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Ukraine’s decision to agree to the deal came hours after Russia launched an overnight attack on Kiev that killed at least six people and injured 13.
The attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure came as US and Ukrainian officials met over the weekend in Geneva to discuss a 28-point peace plan being put forward by the Trump administration to end the nearly four-year war.
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Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustam Umerov cited the talks in Geneva when addressing his country’s agreement on key parts of the peace plan.
“We appreciate the fruitful and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and American delegations, as well as President Trump’s determined efforts to end the war,” Umerov wrote on Twitter.
Umerov said his country looks forward to Zelensky’s visit to the United States at the earliest appropriate date “to complete the final steps and reach an agreement with President Trump.”
