Moscow Just Got Handed a Sales Pitch: Kushner Told Putin There Is Money to Be Made on the Back of a Ukraine Peace Deal
Dmitriev discussed ending the war and postwar U.S.-Russia energy projects after meetings with Treasury and Energy officials, a U.S. official said.
- On Monday, Kremlin special envoy Kirill Dmitriev held "constructive" talks with U.S. Treasury and Energy officials in Washington regarding paths to end the Russia-Ukraine war and potential postwar energy initiatives.
- The visit follows discussions last week between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York concerning a potential ceasefire on energy-related targets.
- Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have reportedly pitched "prosperity agreements" to Vladimir Putin, proposing sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners.
- President Trump invited Putin to the G20 Summit at his Doral resort in Florida this December, though Zelensky opposes sanctions relief while the war continues.
- Significant opposition from Ukraine, NATO, and Capitol Hill remains, as critics express skepticism toward exchanging sanctions relief for political prisoner releases during ongoing conflict.
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Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev has spoken with US officials about the possibility of expanding joint energy projects after the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine. He was received in Washington despite Russia's increasingly aggressive targeting of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure with drones and missiles. After yesterday's strikes that hit the Kiev Academy of Sciences, Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that Ukraine's air defenses were not ye…
Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev met with American officials in Washington on Monday to "continue constructive discussions on a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine," AFP learned, Tuesday, from a White House source. Information is also given by the Reuters agency, which also quotes an American official.
Cyril Dmitriii held talks in Washington with American officials on ending the war against Ukraine and on possible energy initiatives by the United States and Russia after its conclusion.
Moscow Just Got Handed a Sales Pitch: Kushner Told Putin There Is Money to Be Made on the Back of a Ukraine Peace Deal
A Kremlin envoy who runs Russia's sovereign wealth fund came to Washington and sat down with Treasury and Energy officials to discuss what American and Russian companies might do together once the war is over. Separately, the president has reportedly signed on to a plan trading Russian political prisoners for sanctions relief — an idea Kyiv has said it will not accept.
These discussions, led by Vladimir Putin's emissary, took place in a context of intensified Russian strikes in broad daylight against Kiev, using reaction drones that Ukrainian forces struggle to intercept.
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