Russia's Presidential Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev traveled to the United States for official talks two days after US President Donald Trump announced sanctions.
Modern.az reports that this was stated in CNN's report.
According to the source, Dmitriev, who is the Kremlin's special envoy, is expected to meet with officials from the Trump administration.
According to CNN, this visit took place amidst growing dissatisfaction following the Kremlin's refusal to end the war in Ukraine and Trump's cancellation of the expected summit with Vladimir Putin in Budapest a week earlier.
Dmitriev recently proposed the construction of a "Trump-Putin" tunnel between Alaska and the Russian Far East.
Born in Ukraine during the Soviet era and educated at Harvard and Stanford universities, Dmitriev worked as a consultant at the American consulting firm McKinsey and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he fell under US sanctions. The US Treasury Department later described him as "Putin's close associate" and family.
A source told CNN in April that US authorities had temporarily lifted sanctions against Dmitriev so that the US State Department could issue him a visa to enter the country.
