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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Finley and Konstantin Toropin

How Trump’s ‘drone guy’ has become key figure in Ukraine peace talks

In a matter of days, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has vaulted from leading a military bureaucracy – focused on cutting red tape to quickly acquire inexpensive drones – to a key negotiator in a Donald Trump administration push to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

The Iraq War veteran, a former venture capitalist and associate of Vice President JD Vance, recently presented Donald Trump’s plan to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

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