Russia’s top economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in the United States for official talks with Trump administration officials on U.S.-Russia relations.
Dmitriev, who heads Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and serves as a Kremlin special envoy, is set to meet Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Miami on Saturday, according to a White House official.
Dmitriev said in a post on X that his visit had been arranged “a while ago based on an invitation from the U.S. side,” adding that dialogue between the two countries is “vital for the world and must continue with the full understanding of Russia’s position and respect for its national interests.”
The trip comes two days after the Trump administration sanctioned Russia’s largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, while urging Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the sanctions, saying they would have little effect on his country’s economy, adding, “No self-respecting country ever does anything under pressure.”
Dmitriev, a Harvard- and Stanford-educated financier born in Soviet-era Ukraine, has long pushed for expanded economic cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. He has recently been very active on X, posting messages referencing the deep state and Q, and has proposed building a ‘Trump-Putin’ tunnel linking Alaska to the Russian Far East.
