Ukraine reportedly agrees to U.S.-brokered peace proposal

Ukraine has reportedly agreed to the model of a bid woody brokered by the U.S. successful what could beryllium a important archetypal measurement toward bringing the astir four-year warfare to an end.

Ukraine reportedly agreed to an amended bid woody during talks that U.S. officials held with a Ukrainian delegation successful Abu Dhabi connected Tuesday. A Russian delegation was besides successful the UAE superior though it's uncertain whether associated talks were held.

Reports of an statement emerged erstwhile an unnamed U.S. authoritative told ABC News that "minor details" inactive request to beryllium resolved but that "the Ukrainians person agreed to the bid deal."

"There are immoderate insignificant details to beryllium sorted retired but they person agreed to a bid deal," the U.S. authoritative told the quality outlet.

A Ukrainian authoritative told Reuters that Ukraine supports the "essence" of a bid woody model pursuing talks successful Geneva past weekend. The official, who was not named, added that the "most delicate issues" of the model would beryllium discussed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine has publically commented connected the woody however, and CNBC was incapable to corroborate the ABC News and Reuters reports.

It's uncertain whether Moscow volition hold to immoderate amended deal.

The Kremlin was tight-lipped astir the discussions taking spot successful Abu Dhabi with Putin's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov telling reporters "we inactive person thing to say" and that the Kremlin was "monitoring media reports."

"We recognize that negotiations betwixt the Americans and the Ukrainians are ongoing. We recognize that immoderate adjustments are being made to the substance that was published; we recognize that the substance that we unofficially received earlier has already undergone changes, but astatine immoderate point, the clip volition astir apt travel erstwhile we volition besides found contacts with the Americans and we volition officially person immoderate information. For now, we person nary caller information."

Ukraine has travel nether sustained unit successful the past week to hold to a bid program with Russia aft it emerged past week that the U.S. and Moscow had held concealed talks and had devised a 28-point bid program which mostly favored Moscow's demands.

The plan, which Ukraine had not participated in, included arguable terms, including that Ukraine marque territorial concessions by handing implicit the eastbound Donbas portion that's partially occupied by Russian forces. The archetypal woody besides demanded that Ukraine trim its service by 50%, arsenic good arsenic different proposals that crossed Ukraine's "red lines."

While media reports astir the "peace plan" were initially met with a grim soundlessness by Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and his European allies, immoderate analysts said it amounted to a capitulation to Russia's maximalist territorial demands.

Meanwhile, Trump issued an ultimatum to Kyiv to respond to the program by Thursday and Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled his support of the plan, saying it formed the "basis of a last bid settlement."

Breaking his soundlessness connected the proposals past Friday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was facing 1 of the astir hard moments successful its past and was fundamentally facing a prime betwixt "losing its dignity oregon losing a cardinal partner," referring to the U.S.