By Max Seddon in Berlin, April 3, 2025
Reuters reported on Wednesday that Dmitriev had been invited to the White House by Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East. The US temporarily lifted sanctions on Dmitriev to enable the visit, it added.
On Wednesday, however, Russia was one of the few countries notably absent from so-called “reciprocal” tariffs Trump introduced against US imports, which impacted even remote uninhabited territories like the Heard and McDonald islands near Antarctica.
US officials said Russia had been left off the list because of the existing sanctions regime against Moscow.
(Bullshit. right.)
