By Gram Slattery and Erin Banco
Photo: AFP / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The Russians shared the paper, which outlined Moscow's conditions for ending the war, with senior US officials in mid-October, following a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington, the sources said.
The paper, a non-official communication known in diplomatic parlance as a "non-paper," contained language that the Russi
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