WorldAmerican lawyer helped establish back channel between Biden White House and Putin

A Financial Times report details how American lawyer Richard Conn used Russian and U.S. intermediaries to deliver a conciliatory Biden administration message to Vladimir Putin in 2022 and receive a reply to later peace proposals. By early 2023, official negotiators Yuri Ushakov and Eric Green had effectively ended the channel.

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