(4 Apr 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 4 April 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"As for Dmitriev (Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund) we know the additional reasons why he was in the United States. In addition to that, he was not only in the United States. We are monitoring the movements of our enemies and the main question is how to withdraw three hundred billion frozen assets? This is the main question."
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2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"We know, and I won’t disclose all the details, but we know that they want, and are even ready and offer some countries to purchase various products, including high-tech ones, for this amount (of money), if these leaders can help them withdraw this money for the purchase of goods in these countries."
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STORYLINE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented Friday on Kremlin envoy’s Kirill Dmitriev’s visit to the U.S. this week, saying he believed he was discussing ways of releasing Russian frozen assets.
Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was sanctioned by the Biden administration after the conflict broke out in Ukraine.
The U.S. had to temporarily lift the restrictions to allow him to travel to Washington this week.
The meetings come about six weeks after top officials from Moscow and Washington met in Saudi Arabia in the highest-level direct talks since 2022.
"As for Dmitriev, we know the additional reasons why he was in the United States. In addition to that, he was not only the United States. We are monitoring the movements of our enemies and the main question is how to withdraw three hundred billion frozen assets? This is the main question." Zelenskyy said.
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