The White House says delicate details must still be sorted out for a peace deal. Earlier, a Ukrainian official said they broadly agreed to a peace proposal from Donald Trump’s administration. Volodymyr Zelenskyy could visit the US as soon as this week. Watch and follow live below.
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Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are hosting a call now with members of the self-described coalition of the willing convening to discuss the Ukraine peace plan developments.
The coalition is a group of more than 30 countries that have committed to helping to enforce any peace deal.
We’ll bring you updates on the meeting as we get them.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, has just posted on X with an update on the peace plan negotiations.
Here’s her post in full…
Over the past week, the United States has made tremendous progress towards a peace deal by bringing both Ukraine and Russia to the table. There are a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details that must be sorted out and will require further talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States.
As reports suggest Ukraine has agreed the broad framework of the peace deal brokered by the Trump administration, Vladimir Putin has just touched down in Kyrgyzstan.
The central Asian country became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Our Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett says there has been no reaction from the Kremlin so far on Ukraine’s agreement to the US peace proposal.
“But I’m not sure it actually changes that much because we were hearing last night that Ukraine and America – or the American delegation – had reached some sort of common ground on a new plan – that’s the reported 19-point plan from those talks in Geneva,” he says.
“Then we heard that the Americans were then going to present this plan to the Russians in Abu Dhabi today.
“What have the Russians said about this? Not very much at all.”
This suggests Russia’s reluctance to agree to anything as “their own red lines and their key demands have not changed”, Bennett adds.
Watch Bennett’s analysis here…
Our military analyst Michael Clarke has been assessing Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s sudden return to the spotlight (see 10.16 post).
“He’s been out of the picture since 30 October, when he messed up the phone call with US secretary of state Marco Rubio about a meeting in Budapest,” Clarke says.
“Literally, nobody knew where he was.”
Lavrov is a “very old stager” who is absolutely Vladimir Putin’s number two and “doesn’t give an inch”, Clarke says.
“The fact that he’s back now, I find quite interesting because the Russians are bringing out the biggest guns to deal with this, because they know this is both dangerous for them if the Ukrainians have got the ear of Trump again.”
Watch Clarke’s analysis here…
By Mark Stone, US correspondent
Washington woke up this morning to a flurry of developments on Ukraine.
It was the middle of the night in DC when a tweet dropped from Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s national security adviser.
He said the US and Ukraine had reached a “common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva”.
Umerov added that Zelenskyy would travel to America “at the earliest suitable date in November to complete final steps and make a deal with President Trump”.
By sunrise in Washington, a US official was using similar but not identical language to frame progress.
The official, speaking anonymously to US media, said that Ukraine had “agreed” to Trump’s peace proposal, “with some minor details to be worked out”.
In parallel, it’s emerged that talks have been taking place in Abu Dhabi.
The Americans claim to have met both Russian and Ukrainian officials there, though the Russians have not confirmed attendance.
“I have nothing to say. We are following the media reports,” Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, told Russian state media.
Donald Trump is due to travel to Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort, tonight, where he will remain until Sunday.
Earlier this week, he set a deadline of Thursday – Thanksgiving – for some sort of agreement on his plan.
We know the plan has been changed from its original form but it’s clear that Zelenskyy wants to be seen to agree to something quickly. That would go down well with Trump.
My sense is that Zelenskyy will try to get to Mar-a-Lago as soon as he can.
Before Thursday would be a push, but would meet Trump’s deadline.
It will then be left for the Russians to state their position on the revised document.
All indications are that they will reject it.
But maybe the secret Abu Dhabi talks will yield something.
We’re now getting comments from Ukraine after reports that it has agreed to the US peace proposal.
A Ukrainian official told Reuters that Kyiv supports the “essence” of the peace deal after US-Ukraine talks in Geneva last weekend and subsequent negotiations.
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will discuss some of the most sensitive outstanding issues, the official added.
Talks in Abu Dhabi are “going well”, a US army spokesperson has said.
Army secretary Dan Driscoll is holding meetings with a Russian delegation in the UAE, officials have told our US partner network NBC News.
Driscoll first met with the Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi on Monday evening and is expected to hold more meetings again today, according to the officials.
He is also in touch with Ukrainian officials in Abu Dhabi, the spokesperson said.
“The talks are going well and we remain optimistic,” an army spokesman said.
“Secretary Driscoll is closely synchronised with the White House and the US interagency as these talks progress.”
While addressing the House of Commons, Keir Starmer says he has received more information on the nature of a peace deal between the US and Ukraine.
He says his “best understanding” is that they have agreed to a draft that emerged in Geneva but admits he’s receiving information secondhand while speaking to MPs.
“This isn’t a new set of proposals or agreements in any way.”
Keir Starmer is still speaking about Ukraine in the Commons.
Asked about Ukraine’s agreement to the US proposal, Starmer says he “suspects” it’s the version that emerged from Geneva.
“Every pressure” must be exerted on Russia to accept peace, he adds.
“This is about Europe, as well as being about Ukraine.
“Putin’s ambitions are not limited to Ukraine, as bordering countries are intensely aware.”
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Starmer says that as he celebrated his daughter’s 15th birthday on Monday night, he saw images of a Ukrainian girl about the same age “being pulled from the rubble”.
“It’s abhorrent. It’s beyond belief. Yet Ukraine lives this same story every night in their cities and every day on the front line, where so many Ukrainians are killed fighting for their freedom.”
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