Kremlin-Scripted 'Peace Plan' Push: Trump Calls Witkoff’s Role 'Standard Negotiation'
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, discussed how to pass Moscow’s proposed “peace plan” to US President Donald Trump’s circle in a way that would allow Washington to present the ideas as its own. Bloomberg, which obtained a recording of their 29 October conversation, reported that the two officials focused on using Steve Witkoff, a long-time Trump associate and the US president’s special envoy, as the intermediary.
During their discussion, Dmitriev suggested that the document be delivered to Witkoff in an informal manner so that the American side could reframe it as a US-crafted initiative....