Vitkoff Brought the Head of the U.S. Treasury Department's Sanctions Unit to Moscow – Axios
Gene Lang, acting head of the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions unit, visited Moscow as part of a U.S. delegation alongside Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
The official took part in a preparatory meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special representative, Kirill Dmitriev, but was absent from the talks with Vladimir Putin.
The presence of the head of the sanctions division indicates that restrictions against Russia were part of the discussions. Earlier, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov that Washington would not make economic concessions to Moscow until Russia ends the war against Ukraine.
This was reported by Axios.
In Moscow, U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, held talks with Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Federation—the aggressor state—regarding further steps to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Putin’s talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoys—Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner—lasted more than three hours in Moscow. The Russian dictator is willing to agree to end the war against Ukraine only on Moscow’s terms, and the Kremlin’s demands have recently become more stringent due to the Russian leadership’s conviction of its own military superiority on the battlefield.
