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US, Ukrainian and European national security advisers will discuss the US-drafted plan on Sunday.

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"We're continuing to work with the Ukrainians to make this the best deal for them," a U.S. official tells Axios.

European leaders say a controversial 28-point plan promoted by the US to end the war in Ukraine is far from being the final settlement. Kyiv is under "enormous" pressure to take or leave the deal by Thursday. Zelenskyy warns country could "lose dignity or key ally".

The summit, the first to be held in Africa, opened on Saturday with EU leaders and their counterparts from leading and emerging economies coming together as Washington's proposed peace plan for Ukraine loomed large on the sidelines.

Ukraine's Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council announced on Saturday that Ukraine will begin talks with the US in Switzerland, on Sunday, on the proposed 28-point peace plan and its terms.

Donald Trump said his proposal is not a ‘final offer’ but the war must end now

The G7 and G20 leaders who met at the South Africa summit expressed concerns about the proposal to limit Kyiv’s army.

Turkey’s role as a mediator in the Ukraine war is coming under strain as Washington advances its own peace efforts and urges Ankara to loosen its ties with Moscow. The pressure comes as Volodymyr Zelensky met Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday, where Turkey repeated its offer to restart…

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Western nations are scrambling to respond to the proposals on the sidelines of the South African meeting.