"Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said a peace draft was ready and could be released 'after today’s meeting in Berlin,' as the US and Ukraine hold a second round of negotiations to 'fill gaps' in Washington’s proposal. “Many indicators suggest that we are, or will be after today’s meeting in Berlin, a step closer to peace,” Tusk told reporters aboard a plane en route to Berlin. However, he warned that growing unpredictability among “certain leaders or certain situations” could affect the timing of the document’s release. “I wouldn’t place a bet on it,” he added. Tusk described US–European cooperation as “crucial,” urging partner countries to use a unified front to persuade Russia to engage “seriously” in the process. “A platform from which it will be clear that on one side are America, Europe, and Ukraine, with developed, compromise-laden, goodwill conditions for a truce and future peace, and on the other side, Russia, which we would all like to persuade,” he said. Tusk acknowledged that ending the conflict would require compromises from both sides. “You can imagine how difficult it is, especially for Ukraine, to seek such a compromise after these losses, after these sacrifices,” he said. Following US-Ukraine talks in Berlin, European leaders, including Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, and Mark Rutte, are set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Earlier, Zelensky suggested he would drop demands for NATO membership, and pursue US and European 'Article-five-like' security guarantees. Donald Trump, NATO's Mark Rutte - and Moscow - have consistently told him NATO membership couldn't happen as part of any peace deal."