A swirl of speculation around a purported US–Russia peace blueprint that would hand Moscow full control of the eastern Donbas and force Ukraine to cut its military in half jolted Washington and European capitals on Wednesday. But officials on both sides of the Atlantic are scrambling to put distance between themselves and the alleged plan , refusing to confirm whether anything resembling the proposal exists. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . One