921 Deripaska’s private plane also flew to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on the evening of August 2, 2016. According to Customs and Border Protection records, the only passengers on the plane were Deripaska’s wife, daughter, mother, and father-in-law, and separate records obtained by our Office confirm that Kilimnik flew on a commercial flight to New York. 922 The Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, which are located in the Donbas region of Ukraine, declared themselves independent in response to the popular unrest in 2014 that removed President Yanukovych from power. Pro-Russian Ukrainian militia forces, with backing from the Russian military, have occupied the region since 2014. Under the Yanukovych-backed plan, Russia would assist in withdrawing the military, and Donbas would become an autonomous region within Ukraine with its own prime minister. The plan emphasized that Yanukovych would be an ideal candidate to bring peace to the region as prime minister of the republic, and facilitate the reintegration of the region into Ukraine with the support of the U.S. and Russian presidents. As noted above, according to GJ█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ the written documentation describing the plan, for the plan to work, both U.S. and Russian support were necessary. Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 2/21/18 Email, Manafort, Ward, & Fabrizio, at 3-5. 923 Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 4; Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 924 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 925 Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 4. 926 Manafort 9/12/18 302, at 4. 927 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 5; Manafort 9/12/18 302, at 4. 928 Manafort 9/12/18 302, at 4; Investigative Technique█ █ █ 929 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Documentary evidence confirms the peace-plan discussions in 2018. 2/19/18 Email, Fabrizio to Ward (forwarding email from Manafort); 2/21/18 Email, Manafort to Ward & Fabrizio. 930 Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 5. 931 Gates 1/30/18 302, at 3, 5. 932 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 933 Gates 1/30/18 302, at 2-4; Patten 5/22/18 302, at 7. 934 Gates 1/30/18 302, at 5; Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 5. 935 Gates 2/12/18 302, at 12. 936 NOSC00021517-20 (10/21/16 Email, Manafort to Kushner). 937 NOSC00021573-75 (11/5/16 Email, Manafort to Kushner).