President Donald Trump’s central second-term goals – ending the war in Ukraine and repairing relations with Moscow – have led to another stab at a peace plan in a roller-coaster year of diplomatic efforts on the nearly 4-year-old European conflict.

After a flurry of hush-hush talks that stretched from Florida earlier this month to Geneva over this past weekend, and then to Abu Dhabi, it appeared the parties could be on the cusp of Mr. Trump’s much-desired ceasefire.

Citing “big progress,” Mr. Trump said on social media Monday that “something good might be happening.” In Kyiv, national security adviser Rustem Umerov said on Tuesday that Ukraine had reached a “common understanding on the core terms of an agreement” with U.S. and European officials.

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