Kremlin forms team for talks with the USA about Ukraine

Kremlin forms team for talks with the USA about Ukraine

The Kremlin puts together a high -ranking negotiation team to have direct discussions with the United States and end the war in Ukraine, report sources that are informed about the matter. This team has not yet announced any public members, but CNN has learned that it will include leading political, intelligence and economic personalities, including a Russian civil servant who has played a decisive role in a recent exchange of US prisoners.

who is Kirill dmitriev?

Kirill Dmitriev, a close advisor of President Putin, will concentrate on restoring economic relations between the United States and Russia, while both sides are trying to formulate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, according to an informed source. Dmitriev recently worked closely with the US investigator for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, as well as with the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to secure the release of the American teacher Marc Fogel from Russia, report sources that are familiar with the deal.

dmitriev's role in diplomacy

"There is a gentleman from Russia. His name is Kirill, and he had a lot to do with this process. He was important. He was an important conversation partner who connected the two sides," Witkoff told CNN on Wednesday. Dmitriev, head of Russia's sanctioned sovereign fund, opened openly as a supporter of Donald Trump within the Russian political elite. He explained that his election victory "shows that ordinary Americans are tired of the unprecedented lies, incompetence and malice of bidding administration" and added that Trump's victory "opens up new opportunities for a re-evaluation of relationships between Russia and the United States".

career and education

dmitriev was born in the Soviet era in Ukraine and received his training at the universities of Harvard and Stanford in the USA. He worked as a consultant at the US consulting company McKinsey and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

negotiation strategy and western sanctions

The integration of dmitriev shows that a central focus of the Russian negotiating strategy is expected to be due to the reduction of sanctions and the restoration of the damaged economic relationships with the West. DMITRIEV is a prominent contact point in Russia both the first and the current Trump administration and has consistently pleaded for closer US Russian relationships and had a private framework discussions with US officials.

After the extensive invasion of Russia into Ukraine in February 2022, Dmitriev was sanctioned by the US Ministry of Finance, which classified him as a "tight confidante Putin" and his family.