Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said “it would be good to know for sure who is the author of the plan,” as tensions over elements that mirror long-standing Russian demands.

As for Mr Trump, he again betrayed his underlying bias: sympathy for Russia and indifference to Ukraine. Ahead of the Geneva talks he dismissively said Mr Zelensky “can continue to fight his little heart out” if no agreement were reached, and complained on social media that “UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS.”

U.S., Ukrainian and European officials gathered in Switzerland on Sunday for talks on the contentious American-Russian peace plan put to Kyiv this week.

The United States and Ukraine said they had created an "updated and refined peace framework" to end the war with Russia that apparently modified an earlier plan drafted by the Trump administration which Kyiv and its allies saw as too sympathetic to Moscow.

Trump is "quite pleased" with progress being made, he says, and Rubio adds that he himself is "very optimistic that we're going to get there in a very reasonable period of time very soon", whether it's Thursday, other days, or Monday the following week

“U.S. capability is unique. That’s absolutely clear and irreplaceable, even in a NATO context,” said James Appathurai, interim head of NATO’s DIANA defense innovation program. However, he added, “there are commercial options available to any country that were not available or not thought of even a few years ago.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, held a solo press conference in Geneva, Switzerland Sunday and provided an update on the ongoing talks to end the war In Ukraine. He said there has been “tremendous progress” in the negotiations but declined to provide details on the obstacles that remain.

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