{"id":58134,"date":"2025-11-25T04:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/army-secretary-driscoll-meeting-with-russians-in-uae-as-trump-administration-presses-for-ukraine-peace-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:28:16","slug":"army-secretary-driscoll-meeting-with-russians-in-uae-as-trump-administration-presses-for-ukraine-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/army-secretary-driscoll-meeting-with-russians-in-uae-as-trump-administration-presses-for-ukraine-peace-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Secretary Driscoll meeting with Russians in UAE as Trump administration presses for Ukraine peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Abu Dhabi to meet with Russian officials, two U.S. officials and two diplomatic sources who were not authorized to speak publicly told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secretary Driscoll met with members of the Russian delegation [Monday night] for several hours in Abu Dhabi. He is scheduled to meet with them again throughout the day [Tuesday] to discuss the peace process and rapidly move the peace negotiations forward,&#8221; a U.S. official told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear who else is in the U.S. delegation in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings come amid an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-ukrainian-officials-zelenskyy-to-us-trump\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">intensifying push<\/a><\/span> by President Trump to secure a ceasefire in the almost four-year-long Russia-Ukraine war, with U.S. officials holding discussions with envoys from both countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend,\u00a0 Driscoll, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Mr. Trump&#8217;s envoy Steve Witkoff, the president&#8217;s son-in-law Jared Kushner and diplomats from Ukraine and European allies <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-us-western-allies-talks-peace-plan-russia\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">attended talks in Geneva, Switzerland<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll&#8217;s meeting with Russian officials follows his <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pentagon-officials-arrive-in-ukraine-to-discuss-military-tech-explore-peace-efforts\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">visit to Ukraine&#8217;s capital<\/a><\/span> last week.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how close the two sides are to a deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-administration-proposed-28-point-russia-ukraine-peace-plan\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News obtained<\/a><\/span> a draft of one Trump administration-backed proposal. The proposed plan included several provisions that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected in the past, including territorial concessions by Ukraine and an end to the country&#8217;s push to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a group of NATO members and other U.S. allies <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/western-leaders-us-28-point-ukraine-peace-plan-reaction-trump\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">released a joint statement<\/a><\/span> calling the proposed plan &#8220;a basis which will require additional work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-us-western-allies-talks-peace-plan-russia\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">said in a statement Sunday night<\/a><\/span> that U.S. and Ukrainian officials had &#8220;drafted an updated and refined peace framework&#8221; following the discussions in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has pressed Zelenskyy to reach a deal by 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