US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll speaks at the America 250 celebration at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on June 10, 2025. Karl B. DeBlaker/AP

US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday about a proposed plan for ending the war in Ukraine, with talks to continue Tuesday, a US official told CNN.

The meetings, which follow days of intense diplomatic efforts as the US makes a fresh push for a resolution to the war, came as Russia and Ukraine conducted deadly strikes on each other overnight Tuesday, with at least six killed in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, and three dead in Russia’s Rostov region.

The talks with Russia, held after US-Ukraine talks in Geneva over the weekend, are meant to lay the groundwork for higher-level engagements in

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