{"id":3917,"date":"2025-02-15T12:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/kremlin-is-already-building-high-level-team-for-direct-talks-with-us-on-ukraine-sources-say\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:31:23","slug":"kremlin-is-already-building-high-level-team-for-direct-talks-with-us-on-ukraine-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/kremlin-is-already-building-high-level-team-for-direct-talks-with-us-on-ukraine-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin is already building high-level team for direct talks with US on Ukraine, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm74wfnw600063j6mr2pfp1t6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm74wfnw600093j6mwxko57oy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Dmitriev, the head of Russia\u2019s sanctioned sovereign wealth fund, has been an outspoken Trump supporter from within Russia\u2019s political elite, saying his US presidential election victory \u201cshows that ordinary Americans are tired of the unprecedented lies, incompetence, and malice of the Biden administration.\u201d He added that Trump\u2019s win \u201copens up new opportunities for resetting relations between Russia and the United States.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm74wfnw6000a3j6m53fakrdx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm74wfnw6000b3j6mvaf2bscy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The Kremlin\u2019s inclusion of Dmitriev, indicates that a key focus of Russia\u2019s negotiating strategy in likely to be on sanctions reduction, as well as on repairing battered economic ties with the West.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm74wfnw6000c3j6m35vr3ek8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Dmitriev has been a prominent Russian contact point with both the first and current Trump administrations, consistently calling for closer US-Russian ties, and engaging in private back-channel talks with US officials.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm74wfnw6000d3j6m8fvhuy1r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            After Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Dmitriev was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department, which designated him a \u201cclose associate of Putin\u201d and his family.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on 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