Ukraine has accepted a peace proposal from Donald Trump aimed at ending the conflict with Russia, as reported by a U.S. official.

“The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal,” the official disclosed to ABC News, adding that while a few minor issues remain unresolved, the essence of the agreement has been accepted.

This updated accord, scaled down from 28 provisions to 19, notably omits elements such as amnesty for war crimes and restrictions on the size of Ukraine’s armed forces.

According to the Washington Post, this revised plan, crafted by U.S. and Ukrainian officials, is anticipated to face rejection from Vladimir Putin.

In related developments, Trump’s special envoy, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, held clandestine discussions with the Russian delegation in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.

The meeting came after Driscoll’s weekend talks with Ukraine in Geneva that were aimed with pushing the peace forward, according to a US official. 

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is currently traveling to the US as the Kremlin reviews the new proposed agreement.

Trump, galvanized by his success in Gaza, ratcheted pressure on Zelensky last week to end the war which has killed 300,000 people since Putin launched his invasion in February 2022. 

The Russian delegation is likely to reject the revised peace plan agreed by US-Ukrainian officials on Tuesday

President Zelensky is expected to meet with Trump administration officials in the US

America’s allies in Europe were reportedly left stunned that Washington had threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies to press Zelensky into striking a deal.

The US put the peace plan to Kyiv at the end of last week and set a Thursday deadline for them to sign on the dotted line, sources claimed.

It appears now that the pressure campaign may have been successful – pending Russia’s review of the new terms.

Lt. Col. Jeffrey Tolbert, a US Army spokesman, said: ‘Late Monday and throughout Tuesday, Secretary Driscoll and team have been in discussions with the Russian delegation to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine.

‘The talks are going well and we remain optimistic. Secretary Driscoll is closely synchronized with the White House and the U.S. interagency as these talks progress.’

Driscoll was elevated by Trump to spearhead negotiations after the president had a private discussion with Vice President JD Vance two weeks ago.

A secretary official representing the US military is typically not involved in diplomatic talks.

The ongoing negotiations occur amid the backdrop of brutal overnight bombings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, with Russian missiles raining destruction own on residential buildings. 

The Russian Defense Ministry said that 249 Ukrainian drones were downed over regions overnight

A Ukrainian onslaught hit a major Russian aircraft manufacturing plant, triggering a ‘glow like after a nuclear explosion’

Three people were killed and at least 16 injured with residential buildings damaged in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, Russian officials said

Moscow triggered death and terror with new attacks on civilians in Kyiv, killing at least six, including an 86-year-old woman pensioner. 

Residents were heard screaming for help after a Shahed drone strike ignited an inferno in a tower block, with two power plants supplying piped hot water heating to homes also destroyed.

A Russian drone penetrated some 50 miles inside independent state Moldova before ending up on the roof of a house in the village of Nizhnie Kugureshty.

Ukraine, meanwhile, responded with their own barrage of aerial attacks on Russia.

Dramatic footage indicated a wonky Russian air defense missile struck a residential building in an horrific new friendly fire incident in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, where a wave of Ukrainian strikes also caused casualties.

Three people were killed and at least 16 injured with residential buildings damaged in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, Russian officials said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that 249 Ukrainian drones were downed over regions overnight, including 116 over the Black Sea, 92 over the southern regions of Krasnodar and Rostov.

The attack on Taganrog came as Russian drones attacking Ukraine’s Odesa region flew over Romanian airspace. NATO scrambled four war planes in response.

The Ukrainian strike on Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield hit the Beriev aircraft manufacturing plant, amid indications an A-60 plane designed to carry laser weapons was burning on the tarmac.

Russia has only two such aircraft, based on the Il-76MD.

Unconfirmed reports said a hangar had been hit, believed to be housing a Tu-95MS strategic bomber aircraft undergoing £36 million modernization, a key part of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear strike fleet.

A fire was seen close to the runway at the plant which is also used to maintain Putin’s Ilyushin Il-80 Maxdome ‘Doomsday’ aircraft designed for use as a Flying Kremlin in the event of nuclear war.

A broken window and a damaged residential building in the background following an air attack in Kyiv, November 25, 2025

Residents were heard screaming for help after a Shahed drone strike ignited an inferno in a tower block, with two power plants supplying piped hot water heating to homes also destroyed

Governor Veniamin Kondratyev called the night attack ‘one of the longest and most massive’ during the full-scale war.

Attacks were also recorded in Gelendzhik, where Putin owns a £1 billion private palace, and Tuapse.

In Kyiv, Russia hit two hot water power plants – CHP-5 and CHP-6, and a hydroelectric power station. The city was plunged into power and water outages, as well as transport disruptions.

The attack was evidently aimed at pummeling Ukraine into agreeing an unfavorable peace plan.

Putin’s foreign affairs aide Yuri Ushaskov said that British, EU and Ukrainian inspired changes to the original U.S. draft were ‘unconstructive’. 

On Saturday, leaders from Europe, Canada and Japan signed a joint statement at the G20 summit in South Africa, saying that the peace deal had elements ‘essential for a just and lasting peace’, but would ‘require additional work’, citing concerns over territory and limits on Ukraine’s army.