Tom Bowman

Driscoll and General George had already planned a trip to Ukraine to talk about drone technology and lessons learned from the Ukrainian battlefield.

Then the White House last week asked the Army delegation to also help kickstart peace negotiations with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, a U.S.

official tells NPR.

The official was not authorized to speak publicly.

Since Driscoll is an Army combat veteran, the sense was this delegation could more easily relate to the Ukrainian officers.

The news of their trip comes amid reports of a new U.S.-Russia peace plan that calls for Ukraine to give up the rest of the Donbass area to Russia and also accept a smaller army.

NPR has not confirmed the plan, first reported by the Financial Times.

Tom Bowman, NPR News.

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One of the hiccups here is Libya's government of national unity said it rejected the use of Libyan territory as a destination for deporting migrants without its knowledge or consent. It says that there's been no coordination with the United States regarding these migrants being sent to Libya. And now Khalifa Haftar, his Libyan National Army, they control eastern Libya.

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U.S. officials, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, they've indicated that a pause might be short-lived if President Trump determines Ukraine is serious about moving forward with peace talks. But the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, said cutting off intelligence support to our Ukrainian partners will cost lives.

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