Ex-Stasi officer Warnig relayed White House signals to Putin in secret 2022 peace bid

Financial Times reports that Matthias Warnig, a former Stasi officer and Putin associate, transmitted White House signals to the Kremlin in fall 2022 and helped draft a peace plan, initiated by U.S. lawyer Richard Conn. The claim is based on unnamed sources and is not independently corroborated; if true, it reveals a covert backchannel during a critical phase of the war, but its impact on current negotiations is unclear.

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