(TNS) Republican candidates running to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell are staking out their positions on the U.S.-backed proposal to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine after Vice President JD Vance offered sharp criticism of McConnell’s view.

McConnell, long a foreign policy hawk and defender of U.S. aid to Ukraine, which has been fending off a Russian invasion for nearly four years, wrote in a statement insinuating that the initial peace proposal takes it too easy on Russia.

That deal would require Ukraine cede much of its eastern Donbas region to Russia and was panned by many American political figures sympathetic to Ukraine.

A revised proposal has since been offered, and a version more amenable to Ukraine and European leadership is now on the table. Though full text of the pla

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