President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has received a draft of a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine and expects to hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in coming days, the Ukrainian leader's office said on Thursday.

Russian officials and pro-Kremlin media outlets are relishing in the biggest corruption scandal to engulf Ukraine’s government since Russia’s full-scale invasion, slamming Western aid to the embattled country and suggesting that Washington is trying to use it to pressure Kyiv into agreeing to a peace deal.