US delegation for Geneva talks with Ukraine revealed
Photo: Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and US secretary of state Marco Rubio (Getty Images)
A meeting between representatives of Ukraine, the United States, and the so-called EU trio is scheduled to take place in Geneva on 23 November. It has now been revealed who will represent the United States at the talks, according to CNN.
According to the outlet, those travelling to Switzerland to discuss the US peace plan will include US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and his team, as well as President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, who drafted the document together with Russian representative Kirill Dmitriev. It is also known that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to attend the Geneva meeting.
At the meeting in Geneva, the sides are expected to agree on the wording of the US peace plan ahead of the upcoming meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump.
A separate meeting between the Russian delegation and the United States to discuss the plan has also been scheduled and "will take place soon," a US official told reporters. The meeting will not be held in Geneva, but the official declined to say when or where it would take place.
US peace plan for Ukraine
Recently, the US administration unveiled a so-called peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine. Among its 28 points are Ukraine’s withdrawal from Donetsk, Luhansk and the occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in exchange for security guarantees. The document, drafted by US and Russian representatives, also calls for reducing the size of Ukraine’s armed forces and granting Russia a veto over NATO membership.
European leaders were outraged by the proposal and urgently began preparing their own alternative plan.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump set a deadline for Ukraine to accept the proposal by 27 November or, he warned, face a worse option later. On 22 November, however, Trump acknowledged that the document is not final and could be revised.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Ukrainians regarding the US plan, stressing that the country may now face a difficult choice: to risk losing its dignity or a key partner.
Representatives of the United States, the EU trio and Ukraine have scheduled a meeting in Geneva in the coming days to discuss the US plan. Zelenskyy has promised that Ukraine will defend its interests in Switzerland.
For its part, the Kremlin complained that it had supposedly not heard any confirmation that Ukraine was willing to discuss the plan, according to Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
