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Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio gave the broad outlines
of the plan last week and said that he had discussed it with
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres during a visit
to New York.
"We haven't seen it yet, we hope it will be delivered to us
through diplomatic channels and we will familiarise ourselves
with it," Peskov said.
The plan would involve international groups such as the United
Nations, the European Union and the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe which would act as facilitators to
organise localised ceasefires initially, Di Maio told a news
conference in Italy last Friday.
Di Maio said the plan has also been proposed to senior officials
representing Group of Seven nations.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of
Russia's Security Council, was dismissive of the plan and other
such initiatives by the West.
"It seems that it was prepared not by diplomats, but by local
political scientists who have read a lot of provincial
newspapers and operate only with Ukrainian fakes," Medvedev said
on his Telegram channel.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has repeatedly called for a
ceasefire in Ukraine. Italy's broad ruling coalition is divided
over the issue of whether to supply more arms to Ukraine.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Frank Jack
Daniel)
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