US EditionTop Russian Envoy Visits US for ‘Official’ Talks, Days After Trump Imposes Sanctions on Moscow
- CNN reported Friday that Kirill Dmitriev, Russian economic cooperation envoy, arrived in the United States for talks and will meet White House envoy Steve Witkoff in Miami on Saturday.
- Dmitriev's trip aims to lay groundwork for a second U.S.-Russia leaders summit after President Donald Trump cancelled a planned meeting in Budapest, citing it would not be productive.
- The visit is Dmitriev's second U.S. trip since Russia's full-scale invasion and follows his earlier meeting with White House envoy Steve Witkoff when sanctions were temporarily lifted.
- Meeting outcomes in Miami could indicate the immediate future of U.S.-Russia relations and prospects for a resolution in Ukraine, while the Kremlin has dismissed the sanctions as political pressure.
- Just this past Wednesday, the U.S. government imposed new sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies, the first under President Donald Trump designed to pressure President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire.
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Trump not ’wasting time’ with Putin as Kremlin envoy visits US
US President Donald Trump on Saturday played down prospects of a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin anytime soon, even as a top Kremlin negotiator huddled for talks with US officials on ending the war in Ukraine. "I'm going to have to know that we're going to make a deal. I'm not going to be wasting my time," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he headed to Asia, days after plans for a summit with Putin in Budapest collapsed. "I'…
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Putin envoy in US for long-planned meeting
MOSCOW: Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for investment and economic cooperation, on Friday confirmed that he was in the United States for a long-planned meeting, proof that he said that US-Russia dialogue continued. “This meeting of mine had been planned quite a while ago, and the American side did not cancel it, despite a number of recent unfriendly steps. We will continue the dialogue,” Dmitriev said. US Presi…
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