Reuters reported on Wednesday that the US has asked President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept a peace plan which would involve relinquishing some territory and weapons, as well as reducing the size of Ukraine’s armed forces.

Reuters cites two sources familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified due to the matter’s sensitivity. A senior Ukrainian official reportedly told Reuters previously that Ukraine had no involvement in drafting the plan.

Also on Wednesday, US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and top American generals arrived in Kyiv as Zelensky met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara. Zelensky will return from Ankara to meet the US delegation on Thursday.

Reuters’ Moscow bureau chief Guy Faulconbridge previously reported that US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff would join Zelensky and Erdoğan in Ankara – but Witkoff did not attend the meeting between the two leaders.

The Reuters report follows a report by Axios less than 24 hours earlier that the US has been secretly co-ordinating with Russia to draft a 28-point peace plan which would end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Witkoff is said to have taken the lead on drafting the plan, along with Russian economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

Reuters’ report is broadly consistent with the details of that plan, as reported by Axios. The plan is said to have been based on principles established at the summit between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this year.

The Financial Times on Thursday quoted unnamed sources going into even more detail, saying Ukraine’s forces must be cut in half as part of the plan presented by Witkoff to Rustem Umerov, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council, in Miami.

Furthermore, the sources said the draft would require Ukraine to give up the remainder of Donbas, including areas currently controlled by Kyiv, and to cut the size of its armed forces by half.  The proposal also reportedly stipulates that Russian be recognized as an official state language in Ukraine and that the Russian Orthodox Church be granted a protected status.