It comes as US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll holds meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi about a proposed plan for ending the war, according to a US official.
Russia though could reject an amended US peace plan if its terms are “fundamentally different” to the understanding reached during the US-Russia summit in Alaska, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine traded deadly strikes overnight, killing at least seven people in Kyiv. NATO fighter jets were scrambled in Romania after at least one Russian drone entered its airspace.
