A detailed adviser to Vladimir Putin is warning of “titanic efforts” to disrupt an upcoming assembly between the Russian chief and United States President Donald Trump.
“Definitely, plenty of international locations fascinated by persevering with the [Russia-Ukraine] battle will make titanic efforts (provocations and disinformation) to disrupt the deliberate assembly between President Putin and President Trump,” Kirill Dmitriev, the pinnacle of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, stated in a Telegram put up on Saturday.
Trump is about to fulfill with Putin subsequent Friday in Alaska to debate peace efforts within the Ukraine struggle.
Dmitriev didn’t identify the international locations, although he made the feedback in response to a put up on X by Dan Caldwell, a former senior adviser to U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, through which Caldwell stated he expects a “concerted effort” to undermine the assembly by “forces in Europe and Ukraine who’ve a vested curiosity within the struggle persevering with.”
European governments are prone to be strongly against any deal that entails handing over Ukrainian territory to Russia, a prospect raised by Trump on Friday however rejected by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday.
Dmitriev’s pre-emptive accusation relating to disinformation is notable given the EU has lengthy accused Russia of waging its personal disinformation campaigns.