Secret US-Russia Peace Plan Demands Major Concessions as Top Pentagon Officials Land in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE — A delegation of senior Pentagon officials, led by US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, arrived in Kyiv on a “fact-finding mission” this week to discuss “efforts to end the war,” a visit overshadowed by explosive reports of a secret US-Russia peace plan requiring major concessions from Ukraine.

The team, the most senior US military delegation to visit Kyiv since President Donald Trump took office in January, is expected to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday.

Details of the alleged 28-point peace framework, reportedly drafted during three days of meetings in Miami between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev, have been circulating through news outlets like Axios, the Financial Times, and Reuters.

The reported terms align closely with Moscow’s long-standing demands, which Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently reiterated, and which Kyiv has repeatedly dismissed as a de facto capitulation. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot explicitly stated that “the Ukrainians do not want any form of capitulation.”

The news of the controversial plan emerged on the same day a Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 26 people in a residential block in the western city of Ternopil, with another 22 people reported missing—a stark reminder of the war’s ongoing cost.

While the White House has not confirmed the draft plan, Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged the US is developing a list of ideas that will require “difficult but necessary concessions.” Meanwhile, the Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, downplayed the reports, referring cryptically to the “spirit of Anchorage,” the August summit between Trump and Putin.

Despite the focus on peace, the US Army spokesman, Col. David Butler, insisted Driscoll’s mission is purely “fact-finding,” though an unnamed Ukrainian official told CBS that talks would focus on the military situation and plans for a possible ceasefire.