Risk of sabotage of Putin-Trump summit is real – senior Russian negotiator

“Titanic” provocation and disinformation efforts are incoming, Kirill Dmitriev has warned

Countries with a vested interest in prolonging the Ukraine conflict will likely go to great lengths to derail the planned meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump, Moscow’s senior negotiator Kirill Dmitriev warned on Saturday.

The two leaders are set to meet next Friday in Alaska, with a possible resolution of the armed conflict between Kiev and Moscow at the top of the agenda. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has already rejected any truce that would involve territorial concessions, despite Trump saying they would be part of the proposed deal.

“Certainly, several nations that have a vested interest in prolonging the conflict will take titanic efforts (provocations and disinformation) to torpedo the planned meeting,” Dmitriev wrote on social media.

Dmitriev, who serves as Putin’s aide for international economic cooperation and heads Moscow’s efforts to normalize ties with Washington, was responding to remarks by former US Defense Department adviser Dan Caldwell. Caldwell said there was a “concerted effort to undermine” the summit, reacting to a Wall Street Journal article which he noted was based largely on Ukrainian and European sources.

Worth noting that the sources in this story appear to largely from Ukraine and Europe.

Without a doubt, there is going to be a concerted effort to undermine Trump's meeting with Putin by forces in Europe and Ukraine who have a vested interest in the war continuing. https://t.co/anLAVZuQQf

— Dan Caldwell