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07 Sep 2025, 17:26 GMT+10
Peace in Ukraine is close because the two leaders are engaged in dialogue, Kirill Dmitriev has said
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, are bringing the end of the Ukraine conflict closer, Kirill Dmitriev, a presidential aide on international economic affairs, has said. He added that the diplomatic efforts of the two men could prevent World War III.
Dmitriev, who is also the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the country's sovereign wealth fund, wrote on X on Saturday: "Stalin, Roosevelt & Churchill won WWII. Putin & Trump will prevent WWIII."
He accompanied his post with a picture of the Soviet, US, and British leaders made during the historic 1945 Yalta Conference, which laid the foundations for the post-war order after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
He also pushed back against former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, who suggested that Moscow is not serious about negotiations to end the conflict and urged more Western weapons for Ukraine.
"Wrong. Peace is close precisely because of Trump-Putin dialogue. Idiotic [former US President Joe] Biden's approaches failed. Isolation attempts failed. Sanctions failed. Dialogue, respect, understanding each other, problem-solving to find [a] long-term solution is the way," Dmitriev said.
Breaking a long hiatus in top-level talks between the US and Russia, Putin and Trump have held several phone conversations and met face-to-face in Alaska in mid-August. While no ceasefire agreement was reached at the Alaska summit, the two sides praised the engagement as highly productive. Following the talks, Trump said that Ukraine cannot hope to join NATO or reclaim Crimea.
On Friday, Putin struck a cautiously optimistic tone about the prospects for ending the conflict, noting that "there is light at the end of the tunnel," but noted that if no diplomatic solution is found, "we will have to reach all the goals through arms."
Moscow has insisted that a sustainable resolution to the conflict is possible only if Ukraine commits to neutrality, demilitarization, denazification, and recognizes the new territorial reality on the ground.
(RT.com)
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