At an annual trans-Atlantic gathering in Canada, several senior U.S. senators, including at least one Republican, told reporters that they had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that day and been told that the 28-point proposal that the Trump administration has spent the last several days pushing Ukraine to accept represented Moscow’s wish list and was not the position of the Trump administration.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia—Fresh controversy around a divisive plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine emerged on Saturday, introducing new confusion into what was already a chaotic diplomatic process.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia—Fresh controversy around a divisive plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine emerged on Saturday, introducing new confusion into what was already a chaotic diplomatic process.
At an annual trans-Atlantic gathering in Canada, several senior U.S. senators, including at least one Republican, told reporters that they had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that day and been told that the 28-point proposal that the Trump administration has spent the last several days pushing Ukraine to accept represented Moscow’s wish list and was not the position of the Trump administration.
However, the State Department later that day called the information provided by the senators “blatantly false.”
Republican Sen.
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