Yuri Ushakov, the top foreign policy adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the leak of a call between him and U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff was intended to meddle with the building of Moscow-Washington relations, as a potential peace deal to end the war in Ukraine takes shape.

In the call, reported by Bloomberg , Witkoff privately coached senior Kremlin advisers, including Ushakov, on how to pitch a Ukraine peace deal to Trump . The initial 28-point draft plan that emerged after Witkoff's conversations with Russian officials was criticized by Ukraine and its European allies as tantamount to capitulation to Moscow.

Speaking to a journalist for the Russia 1 channel on Wednesday, Ushakov said he speaks with Witkoff "fairly often" but would not comment on t

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