By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Several congressional Republicans are harshly criticizing President Donald Trump’s White House over its handling of a proposed Ukraine peace plan they say favors Russia, a sharp departure for a party that has adhered closely to almost all of Trump’s initiatives.

Backers of Ukraine have worried that a U.S.-based 28-point framework for ending the war in Ukraine, first reported last week, means Trump’s administration might be willing to push Kyiv to sign a peace deal heavily tilted toward Moscow.

“This so-called ‘peace plan’ has real problems, and I am highly skeptical it will achieve peace,” Senator Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement on Friday.

Those fears escalated when Bloomberg Ne

See Full Page