U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff is facing backlash from lawmakers after a report revealed he helped coach a Kremlin official on how Russia could pitch President Donald Trump on a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.

On Tuesday, Bloomberg said it obtained a leaked phone call between Witkoff and Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide, on Oct. 14.

During the approximately five-minute conversation, Witkoff suggested to the official that Putin could broach a peace deal by mentioning the Israel-Hamas truce that the U.S. envoy brokered.

“We put a 20-point Trump plan together that was 20 points for peace and I’m thinking maybe we do the same thing with you,” Witkoff told Ushakov, according to a recording of the conversation.

Witkoff, who is set to mee

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