Putin administration reacts to the leaked Witkoff-Ushakov call

Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, responded to a Bloomberg article that published a transcript of his phone conversation with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. Ushakov claims that the publication aims to hinder the normalization of relations between the United States and Russia.

Ushakov shared this information in a comment to a Russian propagandist.

Reactions of Ushakov and Dmitriev to the Bloomberg transcript

Meanwhile, Putin's ally confirmed that he often communicates with Witkoff, though he did not clarify whether the published conversation was accurate.

"The content of the conversations is confidential, and I will not comment on it. Nobody should comment on it" he said.

Bloomberg also published a transcript of a conversation between Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev, one of Russia's key negotiators with the Trump administration. They discussed presenting the Russian proposals to Trump's representatives in a way that would make it appear as if they were the United States' initiative.

In the comments section of the Bloomberg publication, Dmitriev called it a fake. On his page, he wrote: "The closer we get to peace the more desperate warmongers become."

"War profiteers & the deep state pour huge budgets into attacking the peace plan and smearing peacemakers — because war pays. People of peace have no PR machine and no media budget — so media narratives are skewed toward warmongers. Yet truth will win and peace will prevail," he noted in another post cynically.

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