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The Mystery of the Ukraine Peace Plan

Who is its reported author, Andrii Artemenko, and what does he want?
Source: Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters

On Sunday, that two associates of President Donald Trump, including Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, presented a sealed envelope to then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn containing a secret peace plan to resolve the three-year conflict in Ukraine. The plan, according to the report, would have Russian forces pull out of eastern Ukraine, and have Ukraineconduct a referendum on whether Crimea

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