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Kirill Dmitriev, a top Kremlin director and mind of a big state-backed investment bank, was expected to visit Washington this week for talks with US officials on Ukraine and diplomatic relations, the Kremlin said.
Dmitriev’s reported attend comes as Washington and Moscow move to rebuild relationships following decades of spiraling conflicts that date Russia’s February 2022 all-out invasion of Ukraine.
Dmitriev, who heads the Russian Direct Investment Fund, has assumed a more important part in discussions with US authorities in recent months. He just met with White House minister Steve Witkoff when the latter traveled to Moscow to join President Vladimir Putin and people.
Speaking to , reporters , on April 2, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed information by Reuters and CNN that Dmitriev’s visit may happen this year.
” Yes, I confirm. This attend may be achievable. We are continuing to talk to the Americans. I will not give more concrete ( details )”, Peskov said.
In a post to X, responding to another record about the attend, Dmitriev said “maybe.
CNN and Reuters, quoting unknown leaders, said Dmitriev may join with Witkoff. Reuters said the meeting had presumably taking place on April 2.
CNN said a special card had to be granted to Dmitriev because he is under US punishment.
Earlier on April 2, Putin signed an purchase allowing a company of Goldman Sachs to buy stocks of big Russian firms that had been frozen since Russia invaded, The Moscow Times reported. Ukraine in February 2022. The US purchase banks had to buy the property to firms preselected by the Kremlin.
Both places have been touting measures to mend relationships, which began to deteriorate in 2012 during the administration of Barack Obama and therefore greatly worsened following the Ukraine war.
Trump has made ending Russia’s more-than-three-year rape on Ukraine one of his best foreign policy objectives.
In contrast to his father, Joe Biden, who refused to engage with Moscow, Trump’s presidency has done just that, holding at least two phone calling with Putin and dispatching leading experts, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to Saudi Arabia next month to start discussions.
However, last week Trump lashed out at Putin and threatened Russia with new tariffs on oil products if Moscow blocks his cease-fire initiatives.
During a phone interview with NBC News on March 30, Trump said he was” very angry “and” pissed off” when Putin called for a , transitional government , to be put in place in Ukraine, which could effectively push out current President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Dmitriev was at the talks in Saudi Arabia, focused not only on resolving the war but more broadly on restoring US-Russian relations.
Considered a close ally of Putin, he is seen as a key player in talks on reviving investment between the two countries amid reports of talks over joint rare earth metals projects.
