Kyiv-born and US-educated, Kirill Dmitriev met his counterpart in the White House after Trump’s public comments that he is “pissed off” at the Kremlin for demanding removal of Zelensky from office.
From: Kyiv Post by John Moretti
Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin’s new chief negotiator with the US, Kirill Dmitriev, met in the White House on Thursday with special envoy Steve Witkoff and said that while “disagreements remain” with the administration of President Donald Trump, the two sides “discussed possible cooperation in the Arctic, in rare earth metals, in various other sectors where we can build constructive and positive relations.”
The White House did not comment on progress made with Dmitriev, the most senior Russian official to visit Washington since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
Dmitriev was born in Kyiv in 1975, but went to visit a host family in the US state of New Hampshire at the age of 14. That same year he went to live with family friends in California. He soon enrolled in a small college there and later transferred to Stanford University where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in economics. He then received his Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University.
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