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Kremlin is already building high-level team for direct talks with US on Ukraine, sources say
CNN ^ | Fri February 14, 2025 | Matthew Chance

Posted on 02/14/2025 5:09:13 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Kremlin is assembling a high-level negotiating team to engage in direct talks with the United States to end the war in Ukraine, sources with knowledge of the issue have told CNN.

Members of the Kremlin team have not been publicly announced, but CNN has learned it will include top-level political, intelligence and economic figures, including the Russian official who played a key behind-the-scenes role in a recent US prisoner release deal.

Kirill Dmitriev, a close Putin adviser, will focus on restoring economic ties between the US and Russia as the two sides attempt to forge a Russia-Ukraine peace agreement, according to sources with knowledge of the appointment.

Recently, Dmitriev worked closely with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff – and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia – to secure the release from Russia of American teacher Marc Fogel, sources familiar with the deal told CNN.

“There’s a gentleman from Russia. His name is Kirill, and he had a lot to do with this. He was important. He was an important interlocutor, bridging the two sides,” Witkoff told CNN on Wednesday.

Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sanctioned sovereign wealth fund, has been an outspoken Trump supporter from within Russia’s political elite, saying his US presidential election victory “shows that ordinary Americans are tired of the unprecedented lies, incompetence, and malice of the Biden administration.” He added that Trump’s win “opens up new opportunities for resetting relations between Russia and the United States.”

Born in Soviet-era Ukraine and educated at Harvard and Stanford in the US, Dmitriev worked as consultant at US consultancy firm McKinsey and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

The Kremlin’s inclusion of Dmitriev, indicates that a key focus of Russia’s negotiating strategy in likely to be on sanctions reduction...

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TOPICS: Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: omgputinputinputin; zelvisvictoryparade

1 posted on 02/14/2025 5:09:13 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

No Zelensky. As it should be.


2 posted on 02/14/2025 5:13:31 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Window Squad


3 posted on 02/14/2025 5:13:52 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sounds good.


4 posted on 02/14/2025 5:14:20 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: JonPreston

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1:11 PM · Feb 14, 2025


5 posted on 02/14/2025 5:19:26 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

If this is true, off with his head!

The little creep has already stolen enough $$$$ from us


6 posted on 02/14/2025 5:39:30 PM PST by Veto! (Tump Is Superman)
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To: JonPreston
No Zelensky. As it should be.

trump-putin-05
7 posted on 02/14/2025 5:44:36 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: MinorityRepublican
high-level negotiating team

For some reason, when I read that phrase, I immediately thought of Dan Ackroyd and Donna Dixon from Spies Like Us.

Stop. The. Shooting. And use your own money to rebuild your own country.

8 posted on 02/14/2025 6:13:56 PM PST by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Putin has said any exchange of land is off the table, and UKR must leave the Kursk Oblast.

Great starting points

A true military peace-seeking genius.


9 posted on 02/15/2025 6:14:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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