US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has insisted that a proposed plan to end the Ukraine war, which has been widely viewed as favourable to Russia, was "authored by the US". It comes after a group of senators said they had been told by Rubio that the draft - which one said he described as a Russian "wish list" - did not reflect Washington's position. Rubio later distanced himself from those claims and said the plan came from the US, and was "based on input" from both Russia and Ukraine.
On Saturday, Republican senator Mike Rounds said Rubio had told a group of lawmakers that the draft plan was not US policy. Speaking at the Halifax Security Forum, he said: "What [Rubio] told us was that this was not the American proposal." Rounds said he had been assured that the plan was presented to Steve Witkoff, who acts as Trump's overseas diplomatic envoy, by "someone... representing Russia". The senator continued: "It is not our recommendation. It is not our peace plan."
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