Trump draws up plan to end war based on Russian documents

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The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war is based on documents provided by Moscow. The documents were submitted to the administration of US President Donald Trump in October by Russian officials. The documents, which were unofficially handed over to Washington in October, reportedly set out Moscow's various conditions for ending the war, sources said. One condition is that Russia hand over some territory in eastern Ukraine. Reuters contacted the US State Department and the Russian and Ukrainian embassies in Washington for comment. However, there was no immediate comment. Although Trump is optimistic about the plan, it is still unclear why the Trump administration relied on the Russian documents to draft its peace plan. The sources said that some senior US officials, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, immediately said that the Ukrainians might not accept all of the conditions after seeing the Russian conditions in the plan. Another issue is that Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump's envoy Witkoff and top Russian official Kirill Dmitriev were discussing the entire 28-point plan from the Russian documents, according to sources. The Russian influence on Trump's plan became clearer in a report by Bloomberg on Tuesday. It said that Witkoff called Kremlin official Yuri Ushakov about the Trump-Putin talks. According to the phone call records, Ushakov and Witkoff hinted at a possible 20-point plan. Like many US administration officials, Ukraine's allies in Europe were also unprepared for the 28-point peace plan. This led to extensive diplomatic activity. Washington-Kiev talks began in Geneva last Sunday. According to ABC News, nine points were dropped from the 28-point plan after those talks. Earlier on Saturday, a group of senators from both the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States told them that Rubio had referred to the 28-point plan as a Russian "wish list" rather than a US proposal. However, the White House and the US State Department have strongly denied that Rubio made such a statement.