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.

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.

Trump in his first presidential term was impeached in the U.S. House of Representatives over a phone call with Zelenskyy in which he appeared to pressure the Ukraine leader for an apparent quid pro quo, although he was subsequently acquitted in the Senate.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian delegation was on its way home from Geneva to report on the talks, after which the government would decide on next steps.

Less than a week after the existence of a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine was first leaked, there are now two peace plans, one of which has been deemed unacceptable to Kyiv and its allies, while the other has drawn only stony silence from the Kremlin.

Ukraine may face a hard choice at a pivotal point in its almost four-year fight to defeat Russia's full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians in a national address Friday, pledging to hold constructive discussions with Washington on a U.

Europe’s plan says that Ukraine joining Nato would depend on consensus among members, which it acknowledges does not currently exist. Nato would agree not to permanently station troops in Ukraine in peacetime, but space is apparently left for the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to have more involvement.

Ukraine peace talks take centre stage at the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, with the United States, Russia and China notably absent from the summit.

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'.