Pentagon officials arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of a delegation to restart peace talks.
“Secretary Driscoll is traveling to Ukraine to get a sense of facts on the ground. He will participate in meetings in Ukraine and report his findings back to the White House,” a senior administration official told The Wall Street Journal. “The president has been clear that it is time to stop the killing and make a deal to end the war.”
Driscoll is joined by two four-star Army generals and will discuss peace plans with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials.
“Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump have already agreed to stop the conflict along the existing lines of engagement, and there are agreements on granting security guarantees,” a Ukrainian official told CBS News.
Driscoll further told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, “I think a lot of the questions are, how do we actually execute on the President’s agenda of peace in that part of the world,” adding, “I have not been to the White House, where it has not come up that we just want peace so that the American industrial base can thrive everywhere, and we have to focus on that part of the world unnecessarily right now.”
He explained that the U.S. military can learn “from what’s occurring in Ukraine.”
“All of our equipment, all of the exquisite features we will need, are definitionally going to come- the data set that the Ukrainians are getting for their generative AI models of when they have drones and they’re flying and they’re learning and they’re doing counter drone and they’re taking all of this information from their sensors and trying to figure out what’s going on,” Driscoll said. “There’s not a single person I know that doesn’t think that is an incredible treasure trove of information for future warfare.”
