💬 “The president recently had a lengthy conversation with Mr. Witkoff, and we know that the details of this discussion have been reported to President Trump,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

💬 “There will certainly be increased co-operation,” Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian president's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation told journalists.

💬 “The meeting [with Witkoff] was extremely productive, but, as I have said before, there are a lot of people, structures, and countries trying to disrupt our dialogue with the US,” the Russian president's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation Dmitriev told journalists.

💬 “The reason why we didn’t provide them originally is because the Secretary of Defense and the US military told the president [Joe Biden] that the US DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH of these in our inventory to meet our basic deterrence needs for the US,” Jake Sullivan explained.