{"id":173199,"date":"2025-11-26T01:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/u-s-and-russia-hold-new-talks-as-ukraine-hopes-to-finalize-peace-deal-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:55:19","slug":"u-s-and-russia-hold-new-talks-as-ukraine-hopes-to-finalize-peace-deal-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/u-s-and-russia-hold-new-talks-as-ukraine-hopes-to-finalize-peace-deal-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Russia hold new talks as Ukraine hopes to finalize peace deal – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States held meetings with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, two U.S. officials told NBC News, as the Trump administration said only \u201ca few delicate, but not insurmountable, details\u201d to secure a deal to end the Kremlin\u2019s war with Ukraine <\/a>remain.
A U.S. official told NBC News that \u201cthe Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal,\u201d adding that there were \u201csome minor details to be sorted out,\u201d without providing further details. A second U.S. official confirmed Kyiv said it would sign the agreement.
President Donald Trump updated the status of the peace deal Tuesday on Truth Social<\/a>.
“Over the past week, my team has made tremendous progress with respect to ending the War between Russia and Ukraine (A War that would have NEVER started if I were President!). Last month 25,000 soldiers died,” Trump wrote. “The original 28-Point Peace Plan, which was drafted by the United States, has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides, and there are only a few remaining points of disagreement.”
Trump said he had instructed special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to meet with the Ukrainians “in the hopes of finalizing this Peace Plan.”
He added: “I look forward to hopefully meeting with President Zelenskyy and President Putin soon, but ONLY when the deal to end this War is FINAL or, in its final stages. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter, and let\u2019s all hope that PEACE can be accomplished AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!”
Ukraine has not publicly agreed to any deal, although a top official said the country hopes to finalize an agreement this week in a meeting with Trump after it secures changes to the plan.
The Kremlin said it wanted to see a changed proposal. The second American official said that the Kremlin delegation had not revealed what Russia’s position might be but that talks were ongoing and there was optimism for the next step.
Putin has stuck to his hard-line stance throughout months of stop-start diplomacy with Washington, and the plan released last week was initially viewed across Europe as granting the Kremlin its core demands<\/a> at the expense of Ukraine and its allies.
Any new concessions to Kyiv could be unacceptable to Moscow, but the White House expressed optimism.
\u201cThere 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,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday on X.
Driscoll, the Army secretary, first met with the Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on Monday evening, and they were meeting again Tuesday, according to the officials.
\u201cThe talks are going well and we remain optimistic,” Lt. Col. Jeff Tolbert, an Army spokesman, said in a statement. \u201cSecretary Driscoll is closely synchronized with the White House and the U.S. interagency as these talks progress,\u201d he said.
A Ukrainian delegation is also in Abu Dhabi, and Driscoll is in touch with those officials, according to Tolbert.
Even as both warring sides exchanged deadly overnight strikes<\/a>, a senior Ukrainian official said Zelenskyy could soon fly to the United States and meet with Trump to reach a deal.
The White House had said Monday that no meeting was scheduled.
Ukrainian and U.S. delegations reached “a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva,” Rustem Umerov, a top official in Zelenskyy\u2019s government, said on X early Tuesday without elaborating on the details.
He added: “We look forward to organizing a visit of Ukraine\u2019s President to the U.S. at the earliest suitable date in November to complete final steps and make a deal with President Trump.”
Zelenskyy said Tuesday the Ukrainian team had returned from Geneva with \u201can updated framework\u201d of the peace plan. He said earlier that there were now fewer points in the plan than the original 28 that circulated last week, adding that he still had to discuss the most \u201csensitive issues\u201d with Trump.
“The principles in this document can be developed into deeper agreements. It is in our shared interest that security is real,” Zelenskyy posted Tuesday on X<\/a>. “I count on continued active cooperation with the American side and President Trump. Much depends on the United States because it\u2019s America\u2019s strength that Russia takes most seriously.”
In an address Tuesday<\/a> to the \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d \u2014 a group of nations, mostly from Europe, that say they are prepared <\/strong>to underwrite security guarantees for Ukraine \u2014 Zelenskyy also highlighted the need to set up the framework for deploying a “reassurance force” for his country.
“We firmly believe security decisions about Ukraine must include Ukraine \u2014 that was our position in Geneva and always \u2014 security decisions about Europe must include Europe,” he said.
He added, “Because when something is decided behind the back of a country or its people, there is always a high risk that it simply will not work.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in the “coalition of the willing” meeting Tuesday that a \u201cmultinational force Ukraine\u201d will play \u201ca vital part\u201d in guaranteeing the country\u2019s security in the future.
\u201cAnd we must come back to this with a strong political guarantee to show Russia we\u2019re serious about responding to any violation,” he said.
He added, \u201cWe need to keep the pressure on Russia.\u201d
Just days ago, Zelenskyy warned that his country faced an immensely difficult week, with the pressure to agree to a deal forcing it to choose between its \u201cdignity\u201d and a \u201ckey partner.\u201d
But he has since mirrored optimism the United States expressed after high-stakes talks.
Driscoll and top Army leaders first met with Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv late last week.
NBC News has reported that Driscoll attended another meeting with Ukraine over the weekend in Geneva, which included Secretary of State and national security adviser Marco Rubio, special envoy Witkoff and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Driscoll flew from Geneva to Abu Dhabi on Monday morning and is now the senior official for the U.S. side in the talks with Russia.
Moscow publicly maintained that it had not been handed an official version of the peace plan.
\u201cWe still have nothing to say,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday when he was asked about the Abu Dhabi meetings, which were first reported by The Financial Times newspaper.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters Tuesday: “We have channels of communication with our American colleagues, and they are being used. And we expect them to present a version they consider interim in terms of completing the phase of coordinating this text with the Europeans and Ukrainians.”
Ukraine and European leaders scrambled to respond to the plan last week, fearing Kyiv could be forced into concessions that would embolden Putin.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Trump’s plan was headed in the right direction but that aspects still needed to be discussed and improved.
“We want peace, but we don\u2019t want a peace that would be a capitulation,” he said.
Meanwhile, civilian casualties were reported on each side as Russia pressed ahead with its war.
In Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said at least seven people were killed and 13 more were injured in a Russian attack that left damage and falling debris in 13 different areas of the capital.
Russian officials said three people were killed and 10 more were injured in an overnight aerial attack they blamed on Ukraine in the city of Taganrog, in the border Rostov region.
Gordon Lubold is a national security reporter for NBC News.
Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Yuliya Talmazan is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London.
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