South African police said three men were detained while trying to board a flight to Russia via the United Arab Emirates.

The Trump administration said on Monday that it was revoking the reinstatement of 14 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who have been on administrative leave since August, when they wrote a letter to Congress warning that President Trump was gutting disaster response in the United States.

Diplomats face an uphill battle to reconcile Russian and Ukrainian “red lines” as a renewed U.S.-led push to end the war gathers steam, with Ukrainian officials attending talks in the U.S. over the weekend and Washington officials expected in Moscow early this week.

As the Trump administration rushes to secure a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump is dispatching two of his highest profile diplomats to Moscow.

Her resignation comes as a South African allegedly recruited to fight in Ukraine recounts the horrors of war to the BBC.

The team of Ukrainian negotiators began meeting Sunday morning with Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law.

A Putin ally has called for more detail in Trump's peace plan for Ukraine. Follow Newsweek's live coverage of the war.

The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.

Russia launched its largest barrage of drones and missiles in a month across Ukraine, killing at least three people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, as a Kyiv delegation heads to the United States for fresh peace talks.