The leaked plan, which has since been revised to 19 points, initially demanded Ukraine make heavy concessions – including giving up territory in the east, capping the size of its military and agreeing to never join NATO – while asking Russia to barely give up anything.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has taken center stage as the man to deliver the latest Ukraine peace proposal to the Russians in what has been a meteoric rise for the longtime friend of Vice President JD Vance.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stripped a key provision out of the proposed peace plan currently being worked on to end the war in Ukraine, a move that one political commentator argued Tuesday had effectively killed peace talks,

The British premier told a meeting of Coalition of the Willing leaders as well as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that peace talks in Ukraine “are moving in a positive direction.”