The Kremlin envoy said on Thursday that he met with Trump’s administration in Washington this week, for the first time in the years, which he knew had traveled to the United States for talks with US colleagues.

The envoy, Kirill Dmitryv, is the head of the Russian sovereign fund for the wealth and special representative of President Vladimir V. Putin for investment and economic cooperation.

On the telegram exchange application, he said on Thursday that he met with “President Donald Trump President’s administration representatives” and that he would do so on Thursday.

There was no current comment on Trump’s administration about Mr. Dmitry’s post.

The visit of Mr. Dmitry’s was followed by the sanctions imposed by the Administration of Biden which He described him as “a famous putin of allies.” It also came when President Trump excluded Russia from A list of countries affected by steep tariffs Discovered on Wednesday.

Mr. Dmitryv did not determine who he meets, but his main famous American colleague in recent weeks has been Steve WitkoffA close friend of Mr. Trump, who is an envoy of the White House for the Middle East and Russia.

Mr. Dmitryv, a 49-year-old ex-banker who studied at Stanford and Harvard and worked at McKinsey and Goldman Sachs, appeared as a key envoy of Mr. Putin in an effort to build a close relationship with Mr. Trump.

The message of Mr. Dmitry, adapted to Mr. Trump’s financial opinion, was to profit the United States from closer relationships with Russia.

In February, Mr. Dmitry’s collaborated with Mr. Witkoff Help the broker’s captive exchange that led to the release of Marc FogelAmerican teacher closed in Moscow.

In conversations with Mr. Witkoff and other American officials in Saudi Arabia for days later, Mr. Dmitryv claimed that US companies earned $ 324 billion losses By drawing from Russia after Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mr. Dmitryv said in his post on social networks On Thursday, his meetings spoke about the return of American and Russian dialogue. The relationship is “completely destroyed under the management of Biden,” he wrote,, And the United States could benefit from cooperation “in international affairs and in the economy.”

“The right understanding of the Russian position opens up new opportunities for constructive interaction, including investment and the economic sphere,” said Mr. Dmitryv.

He did not mention the negotiations of the war in Ukraine between Moscow and Washington. It seems that these conversations have launched with Mr. Putin in recent days After declining the proposal of Mr. Trump and Ukraine to a 30-day break of fire.

Mr. Trump said last weekend that he was “very angry” for some comments by Mr. Putin about Ukraine, increasing the possibility that the US president could give up the effort to restore connection with Russia.

But the visit of Mr. Dmitry’s indicated that Trump’s administration continued to reverse the insulation of Russia Biden at the diplomatic phase.

In the second sign of continuous engagement between Washington and Moscow, Sergei V. Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, said this week that preparations for the second round of conversations were aimed at mitigating the work of American and Russian diplomats operating in countries.

Now and Russian officials First met in Istanbul on February 27 To talk about eating the years of Tit-Za-Tat restriction that reduced the US mission in Russia and a Russian mission in the United States to the skeleton staff.

“We can see the signs of the progress and willingness of our American partners to raise these obstacles to normal diplomat’s work in our capital cities,” said Mr. Lavrov.