Donald Trump's presidential transition effort says a Republican operative who outlined some potential contours of a US-backed peace plan in Ukraine was not speaking on behalf of the president-elect.
Donald Trump spoke to Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the week.A Republican operative who outlined elements of a Ukraine peace plan was not speaking on behalf of Donald Trump, according to the US president-elect's transition team.
Bryan Lanza, a long-time Republican strategist who was a contractor on Trump's 2024 campaign, said in an interview with the BBC that Trump's administration would be asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a "realistic vision for peace". Responding to Mr Lanza's comments, a spokesperson for the transition denied that Mr Lanza — who was on Trump's transition team after the 2016 election — spoke for Trump.Photo shows Trump looks impassive standing before an image of himself pointing on a big screen
During the election campaign, Trump said he would find a solution to end the war "within a day", but did not explain how he would do so. Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula in 2014 after an uprising that prompted Ukraine's Russia-friendly president to flee. His "victory plan" presented last month maintains that provision as well as an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO, long denounced by Russia.
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