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Rus­sia has in­di­cat­ed it is open to Ukraine join­ing the Eu­ro­pean Union as part of a po­ten­tial peace deal aimed at end­ing Rus­sia’s war on Ukraine, and there’s now con­sen­sus on about 90% of the U.S.-au­thored peace plan, U.S. of­fi­cials said Mon­day.

The of­fi­cials said that ro­bust ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s en­voys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kush­n­er, and Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy and his team led to progress on nar­row­ing dif­fer­ences on se­cu­ri­ty guar­an­tees Kyiv said must be pro­vid­ed to Ukraine as well as the con­tentious is­sue on Moscow’s de­mand that Ukraine con­cede land in the east­ern Don­bas.

Kush­n­er and Witkoff are ex­pect­ed to meet over din­ner on Mon­day evening with Ukrain­ian as well British, Ger­man and French lead­ers for fur­ther talks. Trump, who has been briefed twice on the Berlin talks, plans to di­al in to the din­ner from Wash­ing­ton.