Ukraine reportedly agreed on Tuesday to the US peace plan to end the war with Russia, according to US officials who spoke with ABC News.
"The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal. There are some minor details to be sorted out, but they have agreed to a peace deal," one official told ABC News.
Ukraine supports the essence of a framework for peace following talks with the United States in Geneva, but some of the most sensitive issues of the framework remain to be discussed between the countries' presidents, a Ukrainian official told Reuters on Tuesday.
"There are a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details that must be sorted out, which will require further talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the US," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday.
This comes after US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met with Russian diplomats in Abu Dhabi on Monday to update them on talks the US held with Ukraine in Geneva last weekend.
"Late Monday and throughout Tuesday, Secretary Driscoll and team have been in discussions with the Russian delegation to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine," US Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jeffrey Tolbert said on Tuesday.
"The talks are going well, and we remain optimistic. Secretary Driscoll is closely synchronized with the White House and the US interagency as these talks progress."
Trump-backed peace plan causes Ukrainian, European concern
Trump's original 28-point peace plan caused a significant amount of concern for Ukraine and its European allies. Zelensky said on Friday that the original plan would force his country to choose between losing US support or "life without freedom, without dignity, without justice."
ABC News reported that the plan was revised to a 19-point peace plan, which no longer includes limits on the size of Ukraine's military, as well as a point on the issue of amnesty for acts committed during the war.
"Following the meetings in Geneva, we see many prospects that can make the path to peace real. There are solid results, and much work still lies ahead," Zelensky wrote in a social media post earlier on Tuesday.
"Ukraine’s security can only be decided with Ukraine, just as Europe’s security can only be decided with Europe," he added in a subsequent post.
However, the Kremlin indicated that it would reject the modified plan. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the modified 19-point plan “erased... key understandings” that Russian President Vladimir Putin believed that he had with Trump.
The Kremlin had initially welcomed the first draft of the plan. Putin said that it could be “ a basis for a peaceful resolution.”
However, several US congressional representatives accused the Trump administration of fully taking a Russian proposal.
"This is a Russian proposal," Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said, as reported by CBS on Saturday. “There is so much in that [28-point] plan that is totally unacceptable."
"I think he made it very clear to us that we are the recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one of our representatives," Republican Sen. Mike Rounds said, as reported by CBS. "It is not our recommendation, it is not our peace plan."
Rounds added the proposal “looked more like it was written in Russian to begin with."
Rubio rejected the claims, stating that "the peace proposal was authored by the US It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine."