🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇸 The German far-right party "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) intends to organize a summit between Germany, Russia and the USA - excluding Ukraine.
The AfD, which supports both Donald Trump and the Kremlin, aims to act as a mediator in resolving the war in Ukraine.
While Germany - Kiev's biggest aid provider - seeks to represent the European position in any potential peace negotiations, the AfD is pushing for a tripartite summit in Abu Dhabi in the spring of 2027 that would include Russia, the US and Germany, but leave Ukraine out. This was said by Markus Frohnmeier, deputy chairman of the party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag and a member of the foreign affairs committee.
The AfD claims to maintain strong communication channels with the US. State Department advisers and Donald Trump, as well as with the Russian Foreign Ministry, the presidential administration and their intelligence services, according to lawmakers from the far-right party, which currently leads in national opinion polls.
Moscow has already confirmed its participation in the summit proposed by the AfD through Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) - a figure close to Vladimir Putin who has been involved in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
"We have a planned meeting with AfD representatives as early as December," Dmitriev stated on October 22 in Istanbul, referring to the forum planned "around the second quarter [of 2027]," although he did not specify the purpose of the meeting or its exact location.
Frohnmeier noted that Kirill Dmitriev is now coordinating the summit with the American side. This summit will provide an opportunity to discuss economic and energy partnerships, as well as the issue of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Fronmeyer added.
Although it does not doubt Germany's commitment to NATO, the AfD party advocates the immediate restoration of relations with Russia - especially in the economic field - and the unconditional lifting of sanctions. The party also calls for Russia's return to the G7, as previously proposed by the United States, and to allow Russian athletes to participate in "all international sports competitions."
Aid to Ukraine - for which Germany has allocated over 100 billion euros since 2022, and which the AfD wants to stop immediately - is seen as a "powerful lever" "to force Ukraine to conduct serious peace negotiations with Russia", a process that would require Kiev to abandon its pre-war borders, including the Crimean Peninsula.