Ukrainian officials are willing to move forward with a U.S.-backed framework for a peace deal that would end Kyiv's war with Russia, multiple outlets reported Tuesday — though key details remain unresolved.
Reports from ABC News and CBS News both cited an unnamed U.S. official who said that the Ukrainians "have agreed" to the deal, while noting that some points still need to be ironed out.
It was not clear if the same U.S. official was quoted in both stories.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said later Tuesday that Kyiv was ready to advance the peace framework, Reuters reported, citing a copy of a speech the president gave to a coalition of allied countries.
President Donald Trump said at the White House on Tuesday, "I think we're getting very close to a deal. We'll find out ... I think we're making progress."
In a Truth Social post later Tuesday afternoon, Trump said, "there are only a few remaining points of disagreement."
He directed U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and said U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll "will be meeting with the Ukrainians."
"I look forward to hopefully meeting with President Zelenskyy and President Putin soon, but ONLY when the deal to end this War is FINAL or, in its final stages," Trump wrote.
The post followed U.S. officials meeting with a Ukrainian delegation in Geneva over the weekend for talks that resulted in significant revisions to Washington's initially proffered 28-point peace plan.
That plan — which was widely seen as being highly favorable to Russia, the invading force — "has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides," Trump acknowledged in Tuesday's post.
"Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva," Ukraine National Security Secretary Rustem Umerov said in an X post.
But it was far from certain if Russia would assent to the revised peace plan, which has reportedly been narrowed to 19 points.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said any agreement must reflect the understandings reached by Trump and Putin during their August summit in Alaska.
On Tuesday, officials from Kyiv and Moscow reportedly met with Driscoll in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The Kremlin was tight-lipped about the discussions taking place there, with Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, telling reporters overnight that "we still have nothing to say" and that the Kremlin was "monitoring media reports."
"We understand that negotiations between the Americans and the Ukrainians are ongoing. We understand that some adjustments are being made to the text that was published; we understand that the text that we unofficially received earlier has already undergone changes, but at some point, the time will probably come when we will also establish contacts with the Americans and we will officially receive some information," Peskov said. "For now, we have no new information."
The initial, 28-point plan, which Ukraine had not participated in, included controversial terms, such as Ukraine making territorial concessions by handing over the eastern Donbas region that is partially occupied by Russian forces.
The original deal also demanded that Ukraine reduce its army by 50%, along with other proposals that crossed Ukraine's "red lines."
Trump had pushed Ukraine to accept that deal by the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday on Nov. 27, prompting Zelenskyy to declare on Friday that Ukraine faced the difficult choice between "losing its dignity or losing a key partner," referring to the U.S.
That deadline appears to have been scrapped. It was unclear how many of the original deal's points remained in the latest version of a potential peace agreement.
