British News Agency

An American senior official said Driscoll is bringing to the Russians the peace framework the U.S. and Ukraine negotiated on Sunday.

The meeting marks an important step in the Trump administration’s efforts to end the war. It will also likely be the toughest stop on Driscoll’s one-week trip through Kyiv and Geneva, where he promoted the contentious plan without the larger diplomatic and military team that accompanied him over the weekend.

Following Russian demands for changes regarding the transfer of Donbas and other sensitive territorial issues, Driscoll is delivering a plan reduced from 28 provisions to about 19. According to two individuals familiar with the negotiations, these issues were left for direct discussion between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The State Department stated: “President Trump’s entire team, including Secretary Rubio, Special Envoy Witkoff and many others, has been working in harmony for 10 months to end this senseless and destructive war.”

Driscoll — dubbed “the drone guy” by Trump due to his work on military modernization — arrived in Abu Dhabi Monday evening. He spent part of last week in Kyiv and later met Rubio and others in Geneva to discuss the plan with European leaders.

Rubio and lead Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff returned to Washington. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and another negotiator, also flew back to the U.S., while NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexus Grynkewich traveled to Brussels to brief NATO allies.

Russian officials have openly declared their demands, and some elements of the original 28-point plan aligned with them. That plan would have capped the size of Ukraine’s military, banned NATO membership, and transferred to Russia certain territories it had not occupied during four years of war — conditions rejected by Kyiv and NATO partners.