By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he has directed his special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to finalize a peace deal on the Ukraine crisis, media reported.
Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social “In the hopes of finalizing this Peace Plan, I have directed my Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with President Putin in Moscow and, at the same time, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will be meeting with the Ukrainians,”.
“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 added that his team has made “tremendous progress” over the past week.
Trump said he looks forward to hopefully meeting with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky soon, but only when the peace deal is final or in its final stages, Xinhua news agency reported.
The US-proposed 28-point peace plan was unveiled last week.
The representatives from the United States, Ukraine and several European countries met in Geneva on Sunday to discuss the plan after its release.
US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll held talks with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on the draft, according to a statement from the US Army.
Ukrainian delegation and national security advisers from Britain, France and Germany, the Ukrainian side held bilateral talks with the US representatives.
The meeting was attended on the US side by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, with Zelensky’s office chief Andriy Yermak leading the Ukrainian delegation.
According to a joint statement issued by the White House the talks between US representatives and Ukrainian officials in Geneva made “meaningful progress toward aligning positions.”
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