Russia will make no big concessions on a peace plan for Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday, after a leaked recording of a call involving U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff showed he had advised Moscow on how to pitch to Donald Trump. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was ready to advance the U.S.-backed framework for ending the war and to discuss disputed points with the U.S. president in talks that he said should include European allies. Moscow also raised concerns about the leak to Bloomberg News of the transcript of a call between Witkoff and Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, in which the U.S. envoy advised Ushakov on how to pitch a peace plan to Trump.
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