A US official said Kyiv had "agreed to a peace deal" to stop Russia’s four-year invasion, CBS News reported hours after Ukraine’s national security adviser Rustem Umerov said it had reached a “reached a common understanding” with the White House.

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held talks with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday, a U.S. official told Reuters, the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to broker a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

The U.S. and Ukraine said they had created an "updated and refined peace framework" to end the war with Russia that apparently modified an earlier plan drafted by the Trump administration which Kyiv and its allies saw as too sympathetic to Moscow.

The U.S. Army secretary, Daniel P. Driscoll, is in the United Arab Emirates for scheduled meetings with a Russian delegation about President Trump’s latest plan for peace in Ukraine, a U.S. official said.

Ukraine would be reduced to Russia ’s “tethered goat” if Trump’s peace plan is implemented, according to a former head of MI6. Sir Alex Younger said the US president’s proposal was "lopsided" in favour of Russia and would "almost guarantee" another invasion of Ukraine by Putin.

The Prime Minister told MPs there is 'a tough road ahead' to end the war started by Russia, but that the UK is 'more committed than ever to this cause'.

Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kyiv School of Economics, speaks with Bianna Golodryga about the US pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to a peace plan that appears to favor Russia.