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US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and the army's top general have been sent to Ukraine by the Trump administration to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to restart discussions about possible peace talks with Russia.
Driscoll will meet with Zelensky, the Ukrainian prime minister, and other senior Ukrainian military officials to discuss a possible peace process and to discuss the United States' position on the possibility of peace talks.
Secretary Driscoll and team arrived in Kiev this morning on behalf of the administration on a fact-finding mission to meet with Ukrainian officials and discuss efforts to end the war, international media report.
The United States has signaled to President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end its war with Russia, which proposes that Kiev give up territory and some weapons, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The sources, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue, said the proposals included, among other things, reducing the size of Ukraine's armed forces. They said Washington wants Kiev to accept the main points.
Such a plan would represent a major setback for Kiev as it faces further Russian territorial gains in eastern Ukraine and with Zelensky grappling with a corruption scandal in which parliament dismissed the energy and justice ministers on Wednesday.
A senior Ukrainian official previously told Reuters that Kiev had received "signals" about a series of U.S. proposals to end the war that Washington has been discussing with Russia. Ukraine had no role in preparing the proposals, the source said.
Zelensky, who held talks in Turkey on Wednesday with President Tayyip Erdogan, will meet with US military officials in Kiev on Thursday.
Signs of a renewed US-led effort to end the war prompted the biggest rise in Ukrainian government bond prices in months on Wednesday.
There have been no face-to-face talks between Kiev and Moscow since a meeting in Istanbul in July, and Russian forces have continued Moscow's nearly four-year war in Ukraine, killing 25 people in overnight airstrikes.
Efforts to revive peace negotiations appear to be gaining momentum, although Moscow has shown no signs of changing its terms for ending the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long demanded that Kiev abandon plans to join the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and withdraw its troops from four provinces that Moscow claims as part of Russia. Moscow has given no sign of abandoning any of those demands, and Ukraine says it will not accept them.
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