Ukraine sounded an optimistic note on negotiations in Geneva to reach a peace deal with Russia, despite accusations over the weekend that Moscow authored the U.S.-led plan, which threatened to undermine talks.

The White House says Army Secretary Dan Driscoll felt optimistic following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is now planning to speak with President Trump about the 28-point peace plan reportedly hashed out mostly with Russia in recent weeks.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the U.S. has been 'quietly' working on the current Russia peace deal for over a month.

President Trump has repeatedly publicly criticized the Ukrainian leader, who has in turn attempted to smooth over tensions.

Corruption probes have on occasion targeted Zelensky’s administration, and he has often clashed with the agency behind the latest one, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). But no investigation has posed a greater threat to the president’s standing among the people of Ukraine,

American senators panned a U.S. peace proposal on Ukraine at a international security conference in Canada, with one calling it one of the most serious geopolitical mistakes of his lifetime