Fox News: Top Russian negotiator shares status on Ukraine peace talks after meeting with US counterpart in DC

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Top Russian negotiator shares status on Ukraine peace talks after meeting with US counterpart in DC

Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev discusses his meeting with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Washington, D.C. on 'Special Report.'......                    ...                        ...A top Russian negotiator said his country and the United States are having "good discussions" to end Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine after more than three years of fighting.......Kirill Dmitriev, a close advisor to Putin and CEO of Russia's Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), met Wednesday with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Washington, D.C. ......RDIF and Dmitriev were You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control in February 2022, just days after Russia's full-scale invasion began. ......The Treasury Department temporarily waived sanctions on the Russian envoy so the State Department could give him a visa to enter the United States.......Dmitriev praised You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login for making "tremendous progress" in peace negotiations and took aim at the Biden administration for reportedly not engaging with Russia in an interview on "Special Report." ......"There was no trying to understand [the] Russian position," he said. "There was no really solutions that could have been successful and what President Trump['s] team has done — they understood what the solution space may be and they achieved the first de-escalation ever in the conflict, which is stopping hits on energy infrastructure between Russia and Ukraine."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Russia has repeatedly violated the energy ceasefire since it was agreed to in mid-March. ......Ukrainian President You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in a Tuesday post on X that his country shared information with the United States, indicating all of Russia's violations, including a drone attack in Kherson on an energy facility and equipment. ......Dmitriev said Ukraine has also violated the energy infrastructure ceasefire but claimed it's not being covered a lot in Western media.......President Donald Trump You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Wednesday at the White House on his self-proclaimed "Liberation Day," targeting close allies and more than 180 countries and territories with so-called "reciprocal" tariffs. Most notably, Russia was not on the list.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier that neither Russia nor Belarus were included on the list of tariffed countries because the U.S. doesn't trade with them, and they are sanctioned.......The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, however, found in 2024 that the United States' total goods trade with Russia was an estimated $3.5 billion.......Dmitriev said Russia not being You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login was a "technical issue" for the Trump administration as Washington and Moscow work to further peace talks and reestablish ties and partnerships.......The Stanford University grad suggested future economic collaboration as well as a potential deal in rare earths and minerals.  ......Dmitriev maintained that Putin wants to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine and claimed Russia is not making any preconditions on sanctions relief as part of a ceasefire agreement.......The Kremlin said in late March that it would not implement a ceasefire in the Black Sea until the United States lifts sanctions on Rosselkhozbank, a Russian state-owned agricultural bank, and other unspecified financial organizations, according to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login a Washington D.C.-based research group that closely monitors the shifting frontlines in Ukraine....

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