US President Donald Trump’s aides have opened a back-door diplomacy channel aimed at reaching out a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, according to a report.
The New York Times made the revelation on Sunday, days after the paper reported senior Trump aides were in regular contact with Russian intelligence during the 2016 US presidential campaign.
The US president’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Felix Sater, a business associate who helped Trump strike deals in Russia, have presented a plan to the Trump administration to lift sanctions against Russia and establish peace in Ukraine.
Cohen, who has been with the Trump Organization as special counsel since 2007, hand-delivered the peace proposal to Michael Flynn a week before he resigned as national security adviser.
According to the report, Ukrainian politician Andrii Artemenko is also involved in the effort to establish peace in…