There’ll be peace in Ukraine within a year: Putin envoy
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia that the war in Ukraine will stop a year from now.
Dmitriev spoke after meetings with officials from US President Donald Trump’s administration in the United States last weekend.
His visit followed the announcement that the summit between Trump and Putin had been postponed.
“We are sure that we are on the path to peace, and as peacemakers we need to realize it,” Dmitriev, who is also the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, told the audience in the Saudi capital Riyadh. he said.
When asked whether peace in Ukraine would be possible within a year, Dmitriev said, “I believe so.”
While in the United States, Dmitriev said that Russia and the United States were close to a “diplomatic solution” on the war.
Dmitriev praised the cooperation between the United States, Saudi Arabia and Russia, which have the world’s largest natural resources, and said that such cooperation will make the world safer.
“People are currently focused on the regional conflict that exists around Russia, but we do not want it to turn into a larger conflict. And for this we must do better than we have done so far, not worse,” Dmitriev said. he said.
Ukraine targeted Russia’s energy infrastructure with drones, disrupting air traffic across the country and sending large numbers of drones to Moscow for the third consecutive night, Russian officials said on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s General Staff said on the Telegram messaging app that its forces hit the Mariysky refinery in Russia’s Mari El region, a refinery in the village of Novospasskoye in the Ulyanovsk region and a gas facility in the town of Budyonnovsk in the southern Stavropol region.
Russian air defense units destroyed a total of 100 Ukrainian drones overnight, six of them in the Moscow region and the rest in 11 regions and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement on Telegram.
Ukraine has continued long-range drone strikes on Moscow and other parts of Russia in recent months, saying the aim is to hit energy, military and industrial assets, undermine Russia’s war economy and show Russians that conflict is no longer distant.
In his statement on Telegram, the governor appointed by Russia said that a storage container containing fuel and lubricants in the city of Simferopol in Crimea, annexed by Russia, was hit by a Ukrainian drone and caught fire.
