A top Vladimir Putin aide has blasted what he insisted was a partially “fake” leaked transcript of his reported call with Donald Trump’s envoy about a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire.
Details of the Oct. 14 conversation between senior Kremlin diplomat Yuri Ushakov and Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, property developer Steve Witkoff, were published by Bloomberg.
The transcript appeared to show Witkoff advising Putin’s foreign-policy aide on how to win over the American president, 79, including using Trump’s Gaza ceasefire as an ice-breaker before pitching a ceasefire plan for Ukraine.
After Witkoff’s apparent comments sparked public and political fury, Ushakov, 78, told reporters Wednesday that the disclosure was “of course unacceptable.”
In separate news reports, Ushakov and anoth

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