NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has spoken at length about America's latest attempt to end the war and how it could affect Ukraine's future in NATO.
His statements come as Donald Trump's top negotiators are in Moscow today to discuss their peace plan.
At a press conference, Rutte reaffirmed that he expects everything related to Ukraine's membership to be "handled separately" in peace negotiations and that NATO will join such talks, foreign media write, according to Telegraph.
Rutte welcomed the original US peace plan, even though it ruled out Ukraine joining NATO, saying: "You have to start somewhere."
But on the prospects for peace, he added: "It is difficult to predict when we will succeed."
Rutte also downplayed the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, saying that this required consensus of all members, which does not exist.
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky has said he has now received a detailed report from his peace delegation after the conclusion of meetings in the US.
The Ukrainian president said he discussed "things that cannot be conveyed by phone" after his team, led by Rustem Umerov, spent nearly four hours locked in talks in Florida over the weekend.
He said negotiators had "improved" a framework peace agreement developed in Geneva.
Writing in X, Zelensky also said his team spoke with the US delegation about "guaranteeing security from Russian attacks" in the event that Moscow does not adhere to a possible ceasefire agreement.
He says his diplomats have also worked with partners to ensure that Ukraine's European allies - and other members of the "coalition of the willing" - are "meaningfully involved" in the talks. /Telegraph
