Our delegations reached a common understanding on the key issues of the agreement we discussed in Geneva. (...) We now count on the support of our European partners in further steps, Umerov wrote on Facebook.

He added that Kiev wants Zelensky and Trump to meet this week."We look forward to organizing the visit of the Ukrainian president to the United States as soon as possible in November," he added.

The American draft of the 28-point plan, published late last week, among other things, envisages Kiev handing over the occupied Crimea peninsula and the Donetsk and Lugansk regions to Moscow, significantly reducing its army, and committing to Ukraine not joining NATO.

Negotiators from the US and Ukraine then agreed on an updated and refined peace framework in Geneva on Sunday, as both Ukrainian and European representatives expressed a number of concerns about the original US plan.

US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll arrived in Abu Dhabi on Monday after talks in Geneva for talks with the head of Ukraine's military intelligence service, Kirill Budanov, and a Russian delegation, the Financial Times reported. It is not known whether he is holding talks with representatives from Moscow and Kiev separately or at the same table, the newspaper reported.

Meanwhile, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas warned that the final peace plan should make it impossible for Russia to invade again.

"It cannot be that you attack another country (...) and there is no responsibility," she continued, adding that Russia should not return to the G8, as envisaged in the original American plan.

French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with RTL radio broadcast today, said the US plan to end the war had elements worth discussing, while warning against any capitulation by Ukraine.

"We want peace. But not peace that is essentially capitulation, that puts Ukraine in an impossible situation, that gives Russia full freedom to continue its aggression, including in other European (countries), and that threatens everyone's security," he said.

He insisted that the decision on what to do with the frozen Russian funds is in the hands of the Europeans. The only question we don't have an answer to is whether Russia is ready to make a lasting peace. A peace in which it won't attack Ukraine again in six months, eight months or two years, he added.

Macron also warned that France must not be weak in light of the Russian threat, assuring that Paris has no intention of sending its young people to the front.