The head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dimitriev, said on Wednesday that the fund expects a number of American companies to return to Russia in the second quarter of 2025, after a US -Russian meeting on the Ukraine war that erupted in 2022.
conditions
Moscow has set conditions during the talks, as it demanded that NATO to cancel a promise that it cut in 2008 to grant Ukraine in the future the membership of the US -led military alliance, and Moscow also rejected the idea that forces from member states of the alliance would take the task of peacekeeping in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly stated that he would end the war in Ukraine, said that he might meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, this month, and ignore Ukraine’s concerns about its exclusion from the talks in Saudi Arabia.
With talks between the United States and Russia after officials described it as the greatest deterioration in relations since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, some in Russia hope to resume economic relations as well.
The TASS news agency quoted Dimitriev as saying that the Russian direct investment fund “expects a number of American companies to return to the Russian market in the second quarter of 2025.”
He also said, “But the return of American companies will not be easy, as many opportunities have already been occupied.”
After the West imposed on it the most severe sanctions ever, Russia moved quickly to overcome restrictions and the local producers succeeded in acquiring a market share that was previously controlled by some major international companies.
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deal
The talks in Riyadh led to an agreement between the United States and Russia to form negotiating teams for future meetings, and made efforts to resume the work of the two diplomatic missions of the two countries naturally.
Reuters quoted two familiar sources as saying that Ukrainian President Voludimir Zellinski postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia so that he would not give “legitimacy” yesterday between American and Russian officials.
US Defense Minister Beit Higseth said to NATO member states – last week – that Ukraine’s joining the alliance is in the context of a negotiating settlement with unrealistic Russia, adding that Kiev’s hopes for restoring its internationally recognized borders “a fake goal.”
