Behind Donald Trump's sharp change in his position in favor of Russia are promises of lucrative deals from Kirill Dmitriev, Vladimir Putin's slippery spokesman. Le Monde. Part 2/3 Kiev is shocked and helpless - so far Europe has not been able to replace the air defense missiles and the intelligence information provided by the United States. "There is no hope, they [Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner] only think about business," admits a person from Vladimir Zelensky's inner circle a few days after the meeting in Florida. In the media, the Ukrainian president loses his cool, screams about "treason" and uses moral arguments. At a prestigious golf club in Florida, one of Steve Witkoff's development projects, the Ukrainian delegation was outraged not only by the cynicism of a developer close to Donald Trump. She was also startled by the similarity between the American rhetoric and the points made constantly by Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and husband of a childhood friend of one of Vladimir Putin's daughters. "Economic cooperation with Russia is inevitable," Dmitriev has said since Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025. He reiterated this again on October 22 in Istanbul at the Verona Economic Forum, which annually brings together European and Russian businessmen. The financier, as if inspired by the goodwill of the American government, sharply criticized the "stupidity" of Europeans who stubbornly refuse to do business with Russia. "Europeans are not in the mood for business: shop windows are smashing in Europe," Dmitriev said mockingly from the forum podium, alluding to the unrest that hit France on October 17 and 18. He also described the Old World as a region "inundated" with immigrants who allegedly pose a "fundamental threat to the West." This is rhetoric about an imagined danger threatening the white man and Judeo-Christian civilization, word for word the same as that propagated by supporters of the do-it-yourself movement and Donald Trump himself.

Behind Donald Trump's sharp change in his position in favor of Russia are promises of lucrative deals from Kirill Dmitriev, Vladimir Putin's slippery spokesman. Le Monde. Part 2/3 Kiev is shocked and helpless - so far Europe has not been able to replace the air defense missiles and the intelligence information provided by the United States. "There is no hope, they [Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner] only think about business," admits a person from Vladimir Zelensky's inner circle a few days after the meeting in Florida. In the media, the Ukrainian president loses his cool, screams about "treason" and uses moral arguments. At a prestigious golf club in Florida, one of Steve Witkoff's development projects, the Ukrainian delegation was outraged not only by the cynicism of a developer close to Donald Trump. She was also startled by the similarity between the American rhetoric and the points made constantly by Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and husband of a childhood friend of one of Vladimir Putin's daughters. "Economic cooperation with Russia is inevitable," Dmitriev has said since Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025. He reiterated this again on October 22 in Istanbul at the Verona Economic Forum, which annually brings together European and Russian businessmen. The financier, as if inspired by the goodwill of the American government, sharply criticized the "stupidity" of Europeans who stubbornly refuse to do business with Russia. "Europeans are not in the mood for business: shop windows are smashing in Europe," Dmitriev said mockingly from the forum podium, alluding to the unrest that hit France on October 17 and 18. He also described the Old World as a region "inundated" with immigrants who allegedly pose a "fundamental threat to the West." This is rhetoric about an imagined danger threatening the white man and Judeo-Christian civilization, word for word the same as that propagated by supporters of the do-it-yourself movement and Donald Trump himself.