US army secretary briefs ambassadors at ‘nightmare meeting’ in Kyiv on Friday after talks with Ukrainian leader

US officials have told Nato allies they expect to push president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into agreeing to a peace deal in the coming days, under the threat that if Kyiv does not sign, it will face a much worse deal in future.

The US army secretary, Dan Driscoll, briefed ambassadors from Nato nations at a meeting in Kyiv late on Friday, after talks with Zelenskyy and taking a phone call from the White House. “No deal is perfect, but it must be done sooner rather than later,” he told them, according to one person who was present.

The mood in the room was sombre, with several European ambassadors questioning the content of the deal and the way in which the US had conducted the negotiations with Russia without keeping allies informed.

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      6 hours ago

      Oh, I see, you’re being laughably dishonest by comparing border clashes (99% of conflicts post-1985) and support to Mali against literal ISIS, to actual wars and invasions such as that of the US in Iraq, or outright genocide funding as is happening in Palestine.

      Are you being dishonest on purpose to pursue your ideological goals of western imperialism, or are you propagandized enough that you’d even remotely consider comparing border clashes with conflicts the caliber of the total invasion of Iraq?