Brussels has reportedly expressed outright opposition to key points of a plan the US submitted to Vladimir Zelensky’s office last week

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hailed “tremendous progress” at talks in Geneva made towards aligning Ukraine’s position with a US-drafted peace plan which left Kiev’s western European backers blindsided. Washington and Kiev will continue their discussions on a technical level on Monday, according to the US secretary of state.

Rubio, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, and special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Ukrainian officials at the American mission in Geneva on Sunday as US President Donald Trump’s deadline – set for Thursday – to resolve the conflict with Russia looms.

In a series of statements EU leaders have reportedly outright rejected possible territorial resolutions to the Ukraine conflict allegedly included in the US-drafted peace plan submitted last week, which took the entire west European bloc by surprise.

The leaders of France, Germany and the UK met on Friday with Vladimir Zelensky, critically weakened by festering corruption involving his inner circle. EU defense ministers reportedly spoke on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in South Africa, and the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ involving Kiev’s main military backers in western Europe, will hold a virtual call on Tuesday.

Moscow has neither confirmed nor commented on the contents of any of the reported ‘plans’ doing the rounds in Geneva. The Kremlin has refused to engage in what it called “megaphone diplomacy,” following a series of vocal declarations of defiance from Brussels on Friday morning.