Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev held talks with representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on March 11, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff announced. <\/p>\n
The meeting comes as the Trump administration is considering easing sanctions on Russian oil<\/a> to lower global oil prices, which have spiked sharply since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in late February. \u00a0<\/p>\n Dmitriev, a top economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, headed a Russian delegation at the talks in Florida, Witkoff said. The U.S. team consisted of Witkoff, Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law and frequent envoy), and White House Senior Advisor Josh Gruenbaum.<\/p>\n “The teams discussed a variety of topics and agreed to stay in touch,” Witkoff wrote<\/a> on social media. <\/p>\n The delegates did not disclose the topic of the negotiations. \u00a0<\/p>\n The meeting comes on the heels of a March 9 phone call between Trump and Putin<\/a>, during which the Russian president reportedly proposed his ideas for resolving the war in Iran. <\/p>\n Though Russia has allegedly provided Iran with intelligence to assist in targeting U.S. forces in the Middle East, Trump has dismissed<\/a> these reports. \u00a0<\/p>\n Russia has already started to see the benefits of the war’s disruption to global energy markets. The U.S. has eased sanctions on India<\/a>, allowing the country to import more Russian oil, and has signaled additional restrictions will be lifted<\/a> to stabilize prices. <\/p>\n The war in Iran has also stalled U.S.-brokered peace negotiations<\/a> between Russia and Ukraine, with the next round of trilateral talks postponed indefinitely amid the spiraling conflict. <\/p>\n Witkoff and Kushner are Trump’s lead negotiators in the peace talks. Dmitriev<\/a>, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, has played a key role in Moscow’s outreach to Washington. He is also the architect of the initial U.S.-backed 28-point peace plan<\/a> that demanded sweeping concessions from Ukraine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev held talks with representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on March 11,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-188377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}